A history of the United States for schools . evolution. Franklinstrongly felt the need of sucha Federal Union, and for awhile his Pennsylvania Ga-zette appeared with a uniondevice and the motto Uniteor Die. ^ But not one of the colonies accepted the people cared little or nothing for union. A nativeof Massachusetts regarded himself as a Massachusettsman, or a New Englander, or an Englishman ; not as anAmerican, with Pennsylvanians and Virginians for coun-trymen. So it was with all the colonies; in all, the feel-ing of Americanism grew but slowly. 78. The Stamp Act Passed and Repealed.
A history of the United States for schools . evolution. Franklinstrongly felt the need of sucha Federal Union, and for awhile his Pennsylvania Ga-zette appeared with a uniondevice and the motto Uniteor Die. ^ But not one of the colonies accepted the people cared little or nothing for union. A nativeof Massachusetts regarded himself as a Massachusettsman, or a New Englander, or an Englishman ; not as anAmerican, with Pennsylvanians and Virginians for coun-trymen. So it was with all the colonies; in all, the feel-ing of Americanism grew but slowly. 78. The Stamp Act Passed and Repealed. TheFrench War and Pontiacs War proved that some kindof general government that could levy taxes and enlistsoldiers was an absolute necessity, and since the peopleof the colonies would not make such a government, theBritish undertook to provide one for us. In other undertook to support a small army for the 1 The initials NE, NY, etc., on the fragments of the snake, beginningat the head, stand for New England, New York, 78. CAUSES AND BEGINNINGS. 189 defense of the colonies, and to raise the needful moneyby a tax gathered from the people of the colonies. Itwas thought that the pleasantest and easiest way to raisethe money would be through revenue stamps. It did notcall for any hateful searching of peoples houses andshops, or any unpleasant questions about their The stampincomes, or about their invested or hoarded byVadfa^-^wealth. It only required that legal documents ^t-and commercial instruments should be written, and news-papers printed, on stamped paper. While a stamp taxis thus less annoying than any other kind of tax, it isvery effective for raising money, for it is impossible toevade it ; it enforces itself. For these reasons, Parlia-ment, in 1765, passed the Stamp Act. Such an act was something entirely new and unheardof in American history. In each colony there was anassembly or legislature elected by the people, and thisassembly was the only powe
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