The Stamp Act

THE STAMP ACT CONGRESS

No taxation, without representation!

* Valentina Esquivel* Paz Lopez

LET’S REMEMBER…

❖Legal documents, marriage

certificates, insurance policies,

licenses,dices and playing cards,

newspapers, liquor licences, ,

calendars. almanacs, diplomas,

contracts, wills, Bills of Sale and

Licences - the Stamp Act

affected everyone in the

Colonies.

❖Colonists dislike and

opposition to the Parliament.

❖Land free of oppressors.

STAMP ACT

❖Fotos

WHAT IS THE STAMP ACT CONGRESS AND WHO ATTENDED?

❖The Stamp Act Congress, or First

Congress of the American Colonies, was a

meeting held between October 7 and 25, in

the Federal Hall building in New York City.

❖Twenty-seven representatives from nine

Colonies.

❖Delaware, Maryland, Massachusetts,

Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New

Jersey, Pennsylvania, and South Carolina.

❖Virginia, North Carolina, Georgia and

New Hampshire did not attend.

DELEGATES Colonies sent the following delegates to the Stamp Act Congress:

❖From Massachusetts: James Otis,

Samuel Adams, Oliver Partridge and Timothy Ruggles.

❖From Rhode Island: Henry Ward and Metcalf Bowler

❖From Connecticut: William Johnson, Eliphalet Dyer and David Rowland.

❖From New York: Phillip Livingston, William Bayard, John Cruger, Robert Livingston and

Leonard Lispinard.

❖From Pennsylvania: John Morton, George Bryan and John Dickinson.

❖From New Jersey: Hendrick Fisher, Robert Ogden and Joseph Gordon.

❖From Delaware: Caesar Rodney and Thomas McKean.

❖From Maryland: Edward Tilghman, Thomas Ringgold and William Murdock.

❖From South Carolina: John Rutledge, Thomas Lynch and Christopher Gadsden.

❖Secretary: John Cotton

❖President: Timothy Ruggles from Massachusetts.

WHAT DID THEY DISCUSS?

❖It was imposed, without approval of the colonial

legislature.

❖The high taxes on domestically items.

❖The Stamp Agents.

❖The idea of Repression from the Crown.

AT THE CONGRESS

❖The Declaration of Rights and Grievances.

❖They were NOT intending the separation from the Crown.

❖No taxation without representation.

❖Trial by a jury as a right.

❖Supported to the boycott of British goods.

WHILE IN THE STREETS...

The sons of Liberty.

BRITISH REACTIONS TO THE DECLARATION OF RIGHTS AND

GRIEVANCES

❖. The Declaration of Rights and Grievances issued by the Stamp Act

Congress was rejected.

❖In order to reassert its power and constitutional issues over its right to

tax its colonies passed the Declaratory Act.

THE ROAD TO REVOLUTION AND INDEPENDENCE HAD BEGUN...

❖It was with the Stamp Act

Congress that the thirteen colonies

realized that much could be done if

they worked together.

❖The Stamp Act Congress would

shortly be followed by the First

Continental Congress which was

established on September 5, 1774."There ought to be no New England men, no New Yorkers known on the Continent, but all of us Americans...” Christoper Gadsen