Thus the lines of argument were drawn, and they would produce a decade of disputes and eventually a colonial revolt against the British government. Parliament had replied with its own assertion of supremacy. The history of the period from the signing of the treaty ending the French and Indian War in 1763 to the first Continental Congress in Philadelphia is, Winsor believes, "a narrative of the attempt by the British ministry to enforce certain measures upon unwilling colonists, and of the resistance of the colonists to those measures" (Winsor VI:l9).īound with this is a copy of repeal of the Stamp Act, London, 1766. The Stamp Act Congress had summarized the colonists' beliefs in their political rights while uniting them in opposition to British policy. The Stamp Act Congress was a gathering of landowning, educated white men who represented the political elite of the colonies and was the colonial equivalent of. The previous Molasses Act, Navigation Acts, and Sugar Act suddenly were seen as an ominous prelude to this final blow, the enslavement of British subjects by their own British government. The Stamp Act Congress met in the Federal Hall building in New York City between October 7 and 25, 1765. The frustration was now to take the form of overt rebellion. With this act, the colonists' anger reached the boiling point. The colonists had no such representation in Parliament therefore the Stamp Act was unconstitutional. The British Constitution accorded Englishmen the right of being taxed only by representatives of their own choosing. The congress met according to adjournment, and resumed, etc., as yesterday and upon mature deliberation, agreed to the following declaration of the rights and grievances of the colonists in America, which were ordered to be inserted. However, this small token of generosity from Parliament did little to cool the growing anger of the colonists who felt that this act impinged upon their rights as British subjects. The Declaration of Rights of the Stamp Act Congress by FIRE OctoSaturday, Oct. It was the first colonial action against a British. The Stamp Act Congress led to the first concerted effort by the American colonists to resist the British Parliament and the authority of Great Britain. In fairness to the colonies, the money collected would remain in America, and Americans would be appointed stamp agents. 1765 - Stamp Act 1765 - Quartering Act Congress 1766 - Declaratory Act 1767 - Townshend Revenue Act 1770 - Boston Massacre 1773 - Tea Act 1773 - Boston Tea Party 1774 - Intolerable or Coercive Acts 1774 - First Continental Congress 1775-1783 - War of Independence. The Stamp Act Congress met in the Federal Hall building in New York City between October 7 and 25, 1765. The apparent purpose was to raise £60,000 yearly in the colonies in order to help support the cost of maintaining British troops there, a cost totaling £350,000 annually. On March 22, 1765, the Stamp Act was passed by Parliament without debate and was to become effective November 1 of that year. An Act for Granting and Applying Certain Stampĭuties and Other Duties, in the British Colonies and Plantations inĪmerica.London, Mark Baskett.1765.
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