jueves, 27 de enero de 2011 | By: Nydia Navarro & MariaJose Zuniga

Stamp Act & Quartering Act


Stamp Act
On march 1765 the stamp act was passed by parliament  George Grenville  this was created  to colect taxes of the colonist this was called the stamp act. The bill was passed on February 17, approved by the Lords on March 8th. this require to pay tax in all printing materials like newspaper,book,court documents, contracts land deeds and the books haves differents seals .The colonists had no such representation in Parliament the Stamp Act was unconstitutional. with this act, the colonists were getting anger .The purpose of the collected funds was to protect the American frontier. The Taxetion  ended  on March 1766 when British government repealed the Stamp Act.





Quartering Act.
In early 1765 parliament had another unpopular law called the quartering act this las require colonist to feed and give a place were to live to the british. By this act tension begging between the british and the colonist. the colonist were anger by having they homes open.
some colonist complain, but others believe that the parliament had the right to make the laws.

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