"The History of the Stamp Act Shows How Indians ..." Topic

… Led to the American Revolution

"In depicting only well-to-do white men, Trumbull ignored something like 95 percent of the people who participated in the American Revolution. Indians, slaves, small farmers, and women of all ranks played important roles when American colonists broke free of British control. In some cases, ordinary Americans very directly influenced the actions of the Founding Fathers. One little-known example involves a law Parliament passed two hundred fifty years ago. The Stamp Act, which took effect on November 1, 1765, was one of Britain's most famous encroachments on colonial freemen's rights. Its purpose, however, is little understood.

Contrary to popular myth, which has the British government adopting the Stamp Act to force Americans to pay down their share of its staggering debt, the real reason for the Stamp Act was to help fund a garrison of ten thousand British soldiers who remained in North America at the conclusion of an Anglo-French war in 1763. This was a sizable force: about the same number of troops Washington would have at Valley Forge fifteen years later…"

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Armand

Tango you may be on to something. 🤔

We were not only wrong about the founding fathers, but the popes, Nazis and Vikings!!

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We should have realized this after "Hamilton"!! We've been deceived!!!

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The Stamp Act most directly impacted merchants, printers, and lawyers. Who were ideally situated to organize popular resistance.

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Armand

everyone understood that the immediate beneficiaries of such a diplomatic coup would be the British colonists in North America,

I assume by "everyone" the author means those in the British government that were devising the policy, and by "understood" the author means it is what the framers of the policies wanted the colonists to believe. The colonists saw there was no thin red line protecting them from the natives. That once the French threat had passed most of the relatively small proportion of British regulars who had been committed to the frontier forts had been removed.

What the colonists understood was what those in the British government who were devising the policies did not want to admit. It wasn't intended to protect frontier settlors from attacks by the natives. It was about diverting profits from western lands and from the trade with the natives away from the colonists who had enjoyed them in the years leading up to the F&IW. This is why at least one Royal Governor initially opposed the policies.

Good points…

Armand