The Stamp Act resulted in widespread revolts and constituted the beginning of a wholesale colonial rebellion against the British crown.
Basically, the Stamp Act levied a tax on all printed documents, including newspapers, magazines, legal papers, licenses, and wills.
Accordingly, the Stamp Act was the first direct tax levied on the thirteen colonies. The colonists reacted to the tax angrily, and many revolts occurred. In Massachusetts, an opposition group called the Sons of Liberty hung an effigy of Andrew Oliver, then Massachusetts's stamp distributor, on the Liberty Tree. Oliver was forced to resign.
Many distributors across the colonies were also forced to resign. So, the tax was never properly collected.
Meanwhile, dissidents like Patrick Henry rose up in defiance against the Stamp Act. Henry proposed a series of resolutions to the Virginia House of Burgesses. He maintained that the British Parliament had no authority to levy taxes on any of the colonies.
In the end, the British Parliament repealed the Stamp Act in 1766. However, the law was instrumental in the souring of relations between the colonies and the British crown.
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