Why Was The Stamp Act Important

The Stamp Act was a tax imposed by the British government on the American colonies. British taxpayers already paid a stamp tax and Massachusetts briefly experimented with a similar law, but the Stamp Act imposed on colonial residents went further than the existing ones. The primary goal was to raise money needed for military defenses of the colonies.
The Act imposed a tax that required colonial residents to purchase a stamp to be affixed to a number of documents. In addition to taxing legal documents such as bills of sale, wills, contracts and paper printed for official documents, it required the American population to purchase stamps for newspapers, pamphlets, posters and even playing cards. The tax was payable in scarce silver and gold coins and not in paper money which was the most common method of payment in the colonies. According to Oliver M. Dickerson, more than one hundred thousand pounds worth of stamps were shipped to America.
The war developed from 1754 to 1763, Americans and Englishmen fought together against the French and were victorious. Britain annexed the French Canadian territories and Acadia, both colonies had approximately 80,000 French Roman Catholic residents. In order to gain their support parliament passed the Quebec Act in 1774 which included reforms favorable to French Catholics. France also ceded the territories along the west of the thirteen colonies. These lands were inhabited by Native American Indians who supported the French during the war. This war changed the geopolitical and economic relations between America, France and