Vocabulary
Revenue
What is Incoming money from taxes or other sources?
What did the Stamp Act tax?
Taxed newspapers, almanacs, pamphlets, broadsides, legal documents, dice, and playing cards.
What is Commodity?
A good that people buy and sell.
What is the major issue concerning the Stamp Act?.
Required colonists to pay taxes on every page of printed paper they used
Boycott
BoycottTo engage in a concerted refusal to have dealings with a person, a store, or an organization usually to express disapproval or force acceptance of certain conditions
What is the Stamp Act
A tax on paper used in the American colonies in 1765
What is Propaganda
Ideas or information intentionally spread to harm or help cause information used to influence opinion
Why is the Stamp Act important
to help pay for British troops stationed in the colonies during the Seven Years' War
Rebellion
What is open defiance of authority
How did the colonists protest against the Stamp Act?
The protests began with petitions, led to refusals to pay the tax, and eventually to property damage and harassment of officials.