The Stamp Act never took effect as violence and intimidation left the colonies without stamp officials, while the boycott of British goods led the Prime Minister Marquis of Rockingham to nullify the Stamp Act in 1766. Official document of the resolutions of the Stamp Act Congress Repeal of the Stamp Act The Stamp Act Congress led to the first concerted effort by the American colonists to resist the British Parliament and the authority of Great Britain. The Stamp Act Congress : with an exact copy of the complete journal Available at Marlene & Nathan Addlestone Library Book Stacks, 2nd floor (E215.2. The mercantilistic economic policy of Britain led the Americans to develop their own economic ideology which led to the Independence War, a separation of America from the oppressive motherland. A depiction of the Stamp Act Congress The changes triggered by this Act were far-reaching. The colonial population realized that they had to be involved in the political process in order to be economically independent and set a pattern of resistance that led to the American independence. This Stamp Act would require that all transactions of trade, imports, settling of debts, licenses, publishing of newspapers, and any official court business in the colonies would need to pay another tax, to use the British Government’s stamped paper. The Congress dissolved on October 24, and on November 1 when the Stamp Act was to become law, several bands of Sons of Liberty throughout port towns staged mock funerals showcasing liberty being extinguished by the new taxes. President: Timothy Ruggles from Massachusetts.Ī tax paid on legal documents such as bills of sale, wills, contracts and paper printed for official documents, newspapers, pamphlets, posters and even playing cards. The Stamp Act Congress was a meeting of 27 delegates from nine of the 13 Original Colonies that took place in New York City from October 7 to October 25, 1765. On the 19th, the Congress produced a resolution called the Declaration of Rights and Grievances, a fourteen point list of the colonists positions, that was written by John Dickinson of Pennsylvania. From Rhode Island: Henry Ward and Metcalf Bowlerįrom Connecticut: William Johnson, Eliphalet Dyer and David Rowland.įrom New York: Phillip Livingston, William Bayard, John Cruger, Robert Livingston and Leonard Lispinard.įrom Pennsylvania: John Morton, George Bryan and John Dickinson.įrom New Jersey: Hendrick Fisher, Robert Ogden and Joseph Gordon.įrom Delaware: Caesar Rodney and Thomas McKean.įrom Maryland: Edward Tilghman, Thomas Ringgold and William Murdock.įrom South Carolina: John Rutledge, Thomas Lynch and Christopher Gadsden. In October, twenty-seven delegates from nine colonies met in New York to decide on a unified response to British taxes. The Stamp Act Congress had one intended goal, to remonstrate with Parliament about how the Stamp Act violated their rights as English citizens. The Stamp Act Congress, which met in New York City from October 7 to 25, 1765, was the first gathering of representatives from several American colonies to devise a unified protest against British taxation.
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