I want to reference ways that colonists avoided British policy leading up to the road to revolution, and I want to make it interesting and had an idea using this style of writing. But I don’t want to be inaccurate and say something that is untrue.
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I'm writing a paper for a college history class and am having trouble finding a reliable source for a particular fact. According to Wikipedia, "The Stamp Act of 1765 . . . required that many printed materials in the colonies be produced on stamped paper produced in London, carrying an embossed revenue stamp."
Would someone be able to help find a reliable source? Thanks in advance.
In reading Theodore Draper's "A Struggle For Power", he asserts that the Stamp Act of 1765 was what set off powder keg building up between the colonies and the British. It was the taxation of the colonies by parliament without any representation on their behalf.
Why was this protested with such recalcitrance and not the Molasses Act of 1733 or the Sugar Act of 1764? To my understanding, at least the Sugar Act had the same purpose as to raise revenue for the British armies stationed in the colonies, so what was it about the Stamp Act that made relations with the British so volatile?
Dice at the time were made from ivory I believe, so why would they include them into the act which taxed printed materials? Was it an effort to tax gambling?
