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Question

How did the Stamp Act benifet the British??????

Answer 1

Sorry - I'm not smart......

but I can google: http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/history/A0846474.html

Stamp Act, 1765, revenue law passed by the British Parliament during the ministry of George Grenville. The first direct tax to be levied on the American colonies, it required that all newspapers, pamphlets, legal documents, commercial bills, advertisements, and other papers issued in the colonies bear a stamp. The revenue obtained from the sale of stamps was designated for colonial defense; while the means of raising revenue was novel, the application of such revenue to defense continued existing British policy. The act was vehemently denounced in the colonies by those it most affected: businessmen, merchants, journalists, lawyers, and other powerful persons. Among these were Samuel Adams, Christopher Gadsden, Patrick Henry, John Dickinson, John Lamb, Joseph Warren, and Paul Revere. Associations known as the Sons of Liberty were formed to organize opposition to the Stamp Act. Merchants boycotted English goods; stamp distributors were forced to resign and stamps were destroyed; and the Massachusetts legislature, at the suggestion of James Otis, issued a call for a general congress to find means of resisting the law. The Stamp Act Congress,. which met in Oct., 1765, in New York City, included delegates from New York, New Jersey, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Delaware, South Carolina, Maryland, and Connecticut. The congress adopted the Declaration of Rights and Grievances; it declared that freeborn Englishmen could not be taxed without their consent, and, since the colonists were not represented in Parliament, any tax imposed on them without the consent of their colonial legislatures was unconstitutional. Faced with a loss of trade, Parliament repealed the Stamp Act in 1766.

Answer 2

The first direct tax to be levied on the American colonies, it required that all newspapers, pamphlets, legal documents, commercial bills, advertisements, and other papers issued in the colonies bear a stamp. The revenue obtained from the sale of stamps was designated for colonial defense; while the means of raising revenue was novel, the application of such revenue to defense continued existing British policy. The act was vehemently denounced in the colonies by those it most affected: businessmen, merchants, journalists, lawyers, and other powerful persons.

Answer 3

The sticky part of the stamp is produced by a substance called syclomidium. It's produced primarily in the UK using an invention of Mike Foolgugin. It combines CaSo4 with HeMo8 to produce a reaction called Incyclodrumatic Infusion. This this invention was donated to the British Gov. in 1756 and they still hold the patent and it brings in around $30,000,000 to the British crown every year.
lol lol lol I'm full of it too..ROFLMAO...I have waaaaayyyyy too much time on my hands..lol

Answer 4

the stamp act was like taxes so when the colonist by stamps they are taxed and the money goes to the british not the colonist .

Answer 5

whenever a colonist wanted to buy paper (newspaper etc.) they would have to pay for a stamp on it, kind of like we pay a tax for things we buy, and well the british got that extra $2 or whatever it was for every piece of paper the colonists bought

Answer 6

Because the Americans had to pay taxes on the products that they were importing and exporting at time of the revolution. Basically a tax without representation.

Answer 7

well at the time the colonies were the least taxed area under brittish rule, so it raked in some money for england, and made a statement to the colonists- we still control you...

Answer 8

it put a tax on pretty much everything made with paper. the british got allt the money made from it

Answer 9

It was still revenue to them, but it showed that they could do whatever they wanted to the colonies

Answer 10

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