US History › Section C · Toward independence › Topic C.2
The Stamp Act and organized protest
In 1765 Parliament taxed the paper colonists used every day, and for the first time the colonies answered together: through their assemblies, an intercolonial congress, crowds in the streets and boycotts run from the household. The crisis forced both sides to say what they thought Parliament's power really was.
In this topic
- A new kind of tax
- Why stamps, and why soldiers
- Actual or virtual representation?
- Worked example: two theories of representation
- Assemblies speak: from Virginia to New York
- Crowds and the Sons of Liberty
- Boycotts and the Daughters of Liberty
- Who joined, and who worried
- Repeal and the Declaratory Act
- Worked example: reading repeal and declaration together
- Common mistakes to avoid
- Key takeaways
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