I need help with my introduction and topics for my five paragraph essay on why the stamp act was not fair.

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I NEED help on the introduction

Answer 3

What did you say in the body of your paper?

Answer 4

The Stamp Act of 1765 was the first internal tax levied directly on American colonists by the British government. The act which imposed a tax on all paper documents in the colonies came at a a time when the British empire was deep in debt from the seven years war and looking to its North American colonies as a revenue source. Parliament repealed the Stamp Act in 1766, but issued a Declaratory Act at the same time to reaffirm its authority to pass any colonial legislation it saw fit. The issues of taxation and representation raised by the stamp act strained relations with the colonies and 10 years later the colonist rose, rebelled against the British.

The stamp was unfair because there was taxation without representation. This means that it's a situation in which a government imposes taxes on a particular group of citizens not consenting or having an actual representative deliver their views when the taxation decision was made. It passed without debate by parliament in March 1765, the stamp act was designed to force colonists to use a special stamped paper in the printing. The colonists greeted the arrival of the stamps with violence and economic retaliation. A general boycott of British goods began and the sons of Liberty stages attacks on the custom houses and homes of tax collectors in Boston.

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