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media type="custom" key="7101837" I belive the Americans got mad over nothing. It was 1% tax and the were going crazy. But they did have a good reason to be mad at the british, bit the britsh also had a reason to be mad at them. The Americans were also mad abot the stamp act. They boycotted buying british goods until the british finally took it away.

Summary:Prespective is the view of a person. For example, from the british perspective, The colonists were were bad. From the colonists perspective, the British were bad.

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As of tomorrow the government will be increasing taxes on all items containing sugar in public school cafeterias in Massachusetts. This will include all candy, ice cream, and soda. The tax is expected to cause the cost of all candy, ice cream and soda to rise by 10 cents. The tax raised will be used to subsidize a healthy eating initiative by the government. I think thius law is stupid. Now I have to pay extra for ice cream and candy. I don't like that.


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[] __ A stamp is a sticker you put on your mail so that you can send it. You will not be able to send your mail without a stamp.

I think that a direct tax is a tax payed directly by a person or organization. An indirect tax is a tax that is on goods or services rather than people.

** A Summary of the 1765 Stamp Act ** The Stamp Act was passed by the British Parliament on March 22, 1765. The new tax was imposed on all American colonists and required them to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper they used. Ship's papers, legal documents, licenses, newspapers, other publications, and even playing cards were taxed. The money collected by the Stamp Act was to be used to help pay the costs of defending and protecting the American frontier near the Appalachian Mountains (10,000 troops were to be stationed on the American frontier for this purpose). The actual cost of the Stamp Act was relatively small. What made the law so offensive to the colonists was not so much its immediate cost but the standard it seemed to set. In the past, taxes and duties on colonial trade had always been viewed as measures to regulate commerce, not to raise money. The Stamp Act, however, was viewed as a direct attempt by England to raise money in the colonies without the approval of the colonial legislatures. If this new tax were allowed to pass without resistance, the colonists reasoned, the door would be open for far more troublesome taxation in the future. Few colonists believed that they could do anything more than grumble and buy the stamps until the Virginia House of Burgesses adopted Patrick Henry's Stamp Act Resolves. These resolves declared that Americans possessed the same rights as the English, especially the right to be taxed only by their own representatives ; that Virginians should pay no taxes except those voted by the Virginia House of Burgesses ; and that anyone supporting the right of Parliament to tax Virginians should be considered an enemy of the colony. The House of Burgesses defeated the most extreme of Henry's resolutions, but four of the resolutions were adopted. Virginia Governor Fauquier did not approve of the resolutions, and he dissolved the House of Burgesses in response to their passage.

I agree with the stamp acts. Even though the colonists had no say in the act, the stamp act was raising money for their protection, so they had no right to complain media type="custom" key="7298419" media type="custom" key="7276955" It seems that the colonists were furious about the stamp act. The colonists would riot because they were so angry about the law. media type="custom" key="7298391" I was right about them being mad about the stamp act, but wrong about what they did. I said they would riot, but they hung a man and then started a protesting near the great elm. media type="custom" key="7298671" Even after the repeal of the stamp act, parliment needed money. They decided to make a new set of taxes. These were the townshed acts. In the townshend acts, glass, paper, paint, and tea were taxed. The colonists were not happy about this. The colonists resisted the tax and it eventually led to the Boston Massacre and the boston tea party In the first picture the british are just fireing into a crowd, but in the second picture the british are shooting at colonists who have weapons and are attacking them. I think they found them not guilty because John Adams found some way to convince the jourey that they were innocent.

I agree with the soldiers being not guilty. Its the crowd's fault the soldiers shot them. tThey kept telling them to shoot them and throwing things at them. Yes, violence can be justified if it is an act of self defence.

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I vote with the school district because the children violate the parents rights by not asking promistion to put them in the news paper.