Stamp Act

The Stamp Act was a new tax enforced by the British Parliament in 1765. The previous taxes were the Quartering and Sugar Act.

Tension
In 1765, nearly after the British Parliament placed the Quartering Act upon the colonists of America, the British put a tax when a colonist bought a certain item that they had to as well purchase a stamp (which was the tax) to prove that they paid for it. Some refused to and walked around the colonies without a stamp on a magazine or newspaper or pack of cards and were charged with refusal against the Crown and were arrested. Some groups, that became famous, such as the Sons of Liberty and Daughters of Liberty, were born, and they were the few who refused to buy the products in general.