Synthesis

The Stamp Act is probably the single worst political decisions ever made. What was probably expected to just be a simple tax movement, ended in consequences much more severe. When the act was originally passed in 1765 there could have been no way for Parliment to percive the vicious backlash that this would create. The Stamp Act was basically a tax on everything that had a stamp on it. Since everything at the time that came from England was considered the best, many colonists relyed on everything to be shipped to them. This not only angered people that they had to pay all this extra money, but also the principle that they had no say in the process. They had been independently governed for such a long time, the thought of being ruled over by another governing body stirred up a lot of unrest in the colonies. This would become the flash point that started the American Revolution rolling.