Question

what actions did the colonists take to protesting the stamp act?

Answer 1

The Stamp Act: The Pot Set to Boiling
The Stamp Act placed stiff excise taxes on all kinds of printed matter-newspapers, legal documents, licenses, even playing cards. Stamp duties were intended to be relatively painless to pay and cheap to collect; in England similar taxes brought in about L100,000 annually. Grenville hoped the Stamp Act would produce L60,000 a year in America, and the law provided that all revenue should be applied to "defraying the necessary expenses of defending, protecting, and securing, the ... colonies."

Hardly a farthing was collected. Virginia was first to act. In late May of 1765, Patrick Henry introduced resolutions asserting redundantly that the burgesses possessed "the only and sole and exclusive right and power to lay taxes" on Virginians and suggesting that Parliament had no legal authority to tax the colonies at all. The more extreme of his resolutions failed of enactment, but the debate they occasioned attracted wide and favorable attention. On June 6, 1765, the Massachusetts assembly proposed an intercolonial Stamp Act Congress, which, when it met in New York City in October, passed another series of resolutions of protest. The Stamp Act was "burthensome and grievous," the delegates declared. People should not be taxed without "their own consent."

During the summer irregular organizations known as Sons of Liberty began to agitate against the act. Far more than anyone realized, this marked the start of the revolution. For the first time extralegal organized resistance was taking place. Although led by men of character and position, the "Liberty Boys" frequently resorted to violence to achieve their aims. In Boston they looted the houses of the stamp master and his brother-in-law, Lieutenant Governor Thomas Hutchinson. In Connecticut, stamp master fared Ingersoll faced an angry mob demanding his resignation.

When threatened with death if he refused, he coolly replied that he was prepared to die "perhaps as well now as another Time." Probably his life was not really in danger, but the crowd convinced him that resistance was useless, and he capitulated.

The fate of most of the other stamp masters was little different. For a time no business requiring stamped paper was transacted; then, gradually, people began to defy the law by issuing and accepting unstamped documents. Threatened by mob action should they resist, British officials stood by helplessly. The law was a dead letter.

The looting associated with this crisis alarmed many colonists, including some prominent opponents of the Stamp Act. "When the pot is set to boil," the lawyer John Adams remarked, "the scum rises to the top." This does not mean that people like Adams disapproved of crowd protests or even the destruction of property. What Adams called "state-quakes" were similar in his opinion to earthquakes, a kind of natural violence

Answer 2

so what did the colonists do?

Answer 3

do u have answer choices

Answer 4

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Answer 5

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Answer 6

so what should i say for what they tried to do

Answer 7

Well the colonist protested the stamp act because it put high unfair taxes on items, even the littlest ones like playing cards, newspapers, books and eventually tea. Also they did not want to be controlled in any way by Britain.

Answer 8

There was a time they took a bunch of stamps (hundreds) and burned them in town square.