THE STAMP ACT

CONGRESS
No taxation, without representation!

* Valentina Esquivel
* Paz Lopez

LETS 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
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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

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