An illustrated history of the New world : containing a general history of all the various nations, states, and republics of the western continent ..and a complete history of the United States to the present time .. . jHEN the Seven Years War had closed, the the American colonies of Great Britain were fuilof loyalty and attachment to the mother these dispositions were speedily changed by theill-judged measures of the British ministry. Plan?for taxing the colonies had been successively proposed to Walpokand Pitt ; but those wary ministers dechned the experiment. Gren-ville w
An illustrated history of the New world : containing a general history of all the various nations, states, and republics of the western continent ..and a complete history of the United States to the present time .. . jHEN the Seven Years War had closed, the the American colonies of Great Britain were fuilof loyalty and attachment to the mother these dispositions were speedily changed by theill-judged measures of the British ministry. Plan?for taxing the colonies had been successively proposed to Walpokand Pitt ; but those wary ministers dechned the experiment. Gren-ville was bolder, and after causing duties to be imposed on several articles of import, succeeded in carrying the famous Stamp Act inMarch, 1765. This act, which imposed a tax on the paper used foinotes of hand, bills of exchange, and other documents used in theordinary transactions of business, was regarded by the colonies asunreasonable and tyrannical. It was received with a burst of indiguation throughout the country. The colonial Assemblies generally 310 THE STAMP ACT. 311. ST BIOT pressed resolutions denouncing the act in strong terms. A congressof deputies, summoned by a resolution of the Massachusetts Assembly, met in New York, , 1765, to consult on the grievancesunder which the colonies laboured, in consequence of the late enact-ments of the British Parliament. All the colonies except NewHampshire, Virginia, North Carolina, and Georgia, were repre-sented. A declaration of rights and grievances, a petition to theking, and a memorial to each house of parliament, firmly remon-strating against the oppressive acts of parliament, and earnestly en-treating a redress of grievances, were voted, and the congress dis-solved on the 25th of October. The storm of popular indignation, however, still continued, andserious riots ensued in Boston and in other parts of the country,where the Stamp Act was attempted to be enforced by the officersot government. Resolutions and com
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