The making of the American nation; a history for elementary schools . mp tax was an experi-ment ; should it be success-ful, other taxes were to belaid. For many years the colonists had been required to payto England duties on the sugar and molasses they importedfrom the West Indies, but never before had the British govern-ment attempted to raise taxes except on matters of colonists feared that the proposed stamp tax would lead tomany other forms of internal taxation. They resented bitterlyany tax which hampered or interfered with them in their owninternal affairs. The Col
The making of the American nation; a history for elementary schools . mp tax was an experi-ment ; should it be success-ful, other taxes were to belaid. For many years the colonists had been required to payto England duties on the sugar and molasses they importedfrom the West Indies, but never before had the British govern-ment attempted to raise taxes except on matters of colonists feared that the proposed stamp tax would lead tomany other forms of internal taxation. They resented bitterlyany tax which hampered or interfered with them in their owninternal affairs. The Colonies are Aroused. — The passage of the Stamp Act brought on the first serious struggle which England had with her American colonies. The tax made an important change in the political system and therefore produced much ., . , , ^,, n T ?, • Taxation excitement m each colony. The sun of Liberty is without set, Benjamin Franklin wrote. A great wave of represen- indignation seemed to roll from New Hampshire to Georgia. In every colony the tax was called • SHILI^ILKCIS/ English Stamps for the AmericanColonies. The 124 THE MAKING OF THE AMERICAN NATION colonists emphatically asserted that they could be legally taxedonly when the taxes were levied by their representative as-semblies, and not by the English Parliament, in which they hadno representation. Taxation without representation is tyranny,they declared. This cry of no taxation without representation had been
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