The Sugar and Stamp Acts

The American History is an extensive one. It includes many different events such as the sugar and stamp acts. All of these events are very important. If the colonists hadnt rebelled in the streets over the taxes then the American Revolution may have never happened. This essay explains the importance of the sugar and stamp acts to the American History. On April 5, 1764 Englands parliament put the Sugar Act into place. This act was used to raise revenue for England. This act taxed imported goods to America from other countries. It helped to give England more money after the French and Indian War. England had to pay for soldiers, weapons, and food for the colonies to fight. England had a very hefty debt to pay off after that so they used the colonists to help them pay it off. The Stamp Act was put into effect less than a year later on February 6, 1765. This tax was on printed materials in the colonies. The paper produced in the colonies had to have a special stamp in order to be sold. This act helped to pay for the troops supplied by England. England put the troops there to protect the colonists even thought they didnt really want it. These acts impacted all of the colonies, but how did they impact Georgia? Since Georgia was the newest colony it had loyalists and colonists. The loyalists favored everything England did while the colonists thought that England was unstable. The Sugar Act took away all of their trading with the Caribbean, where they got most of their supplies. The Stamp Act took away all of Georgias profit on lumber. The colonists method of being heard was to protest against the acts. The Sugar Act caused 50 Boston merchants agreed to stop purchasing British luxury imports. There werent many street protests against the Sugar Act. To protest the Stamp Act many colonists signed a petition to vote against the act. There were more street protests in response to this act though. These are some questions that I thought of. Were the sugar and stamp acts successful? No they were a contributing factor to the American

Revolution; the colonists were done with the amount of taxation that was occurring. Why did the colonists throw the tea into the harbor? They knew that would be an expensive item and it would upset the king. The French and Indian war was very expensive for the British, so they created the Proclamation of 1763 said that the colonists couldnt move away. The British then gave them many taxes that were called acts. One of these acts was the Stamp Act; this act caused many street protests. The colonists were fed up with all of the acts so they dressed up like Indians and went to the Boston Harbor and threw 350 crates of tea overboard. The king was very angry, so he made the Intolerable Acts. The colonists were extremely angry and they made the Declaration of independence, which was like their breakup letter to England. There were many important people and events during this time. Some of them were Button Gwinnett, Lyman Hall, and George Walton. They all signed the Declaration of Independence as representatives from Georgia. There were the colonists too. There were two types of colonists loyalists and patriots, the loyalists were the ones who still followed Great Britain and the patriots were the ones who thought that Great Britain was unstable. There were also Elijah Clarke, Nancy Hart, and Austin Dabney. They also played some important roles in our history. Two important events that happened were the Siege of Savannah and the Battle of Kettle Creek. The Battle of Kettle Creek was when loyalists were marching to Augusta and were scattered by the patriot militia. The Siege of Savannah was an attempt to get Savannah back from the British after they got it a year earlier. The British won in the Siege of Savannah and remained in control of it until July 1782

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Savannah The Siege of Savannah, Wikipedia 9/22/13 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Kettle_Creek The Battle of Kettle Creek, Wikipedia 9/22/13