Stamp Act Of 1763 Analysis

The road to the American Revolution was paved by colonists who strived for equality, as Englishmen, and was prolifically influenced by taxes that were imposed on them without consent or elected representatives in the British Parliament. Duties were the result of the French and Indian War that was fought between the French, and Indians, against the British from 1754 to 1763. Britain’s pyrrhic victory proved to be detrimental, correspondingly to an immense amount of losses and national debt, approximately $150,000,000. In the stages of a new British ministry, George Grenville becomes the prime minister in 1763. To rectify for the what was lost and ameliorate Britain’s national debt, Grenville generated a series of taxes for an accretion of revenue from the colonies; thus the Stamp Act of 1765, which had the harshest colonial reaction. During the period of 1763 to 1776, the American colonies developed significantly socially, economically, and
The reverberation of the Stamp Act ultimately resulted in the Stamp Act Congress, 1765, which formulated the Declaration of Rights and Grievances. Previously, other political groups were formed, such as, the Sons of Liberty in Boston and the Virginia House of Burgesses, which was the first official low against the Stamp Act with the Virginia Resolves, inspired by Patrick Henry. The formations of these small political groups became a strong foundation for succeeding taxes that were considered injustice: Committees of Correspondence, Association, Daughters of Liberty, and the first and second Continental Congresses. When British Parliament did not allow colonists to have elected colonial officials to serve in Parliament, colonists decided to take matters into their own hands; hence the political organizations. Thier primary goal was: if there was no representation in the British government, then it is up to the colonies to make their