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Thank you We sneak and here's your shmoop du jour

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Brought to you by polarizing topics No not like polar

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bears like taxes We suppose polar bears discussing taxes is

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really the ultimate full arising topping All right check out

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the actor and act for granting him hands here in

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america And now for our question which of the following

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best describes the goals of the stamp act and here

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your potential answers Well this point in british history the

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seven years war had gotten wildly out of control not

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in a fun spring break kind of way Not only

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had the war lasted for seven long years but it

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had cost the brits and arm and a leg literally

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solve its money problems Britain decided to tax basically every

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piece of paper used by americans Well knowing this we

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can go ahead and cross up d since we know

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that the tax zeroed in on paper not general trade

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which incidentally puts paper airplane designed back by about a

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hundred years We can also nick's a since we know

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the stamp act was really more about making up for

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the seven years war than westward expansion on top of

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that we know that westward expansion didn't really get revved

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up until the dust had settled from the revolutionary war

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The americans figured the best thing to do after shaking

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off their oppressors was to go oppress the native americans

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Makes total sense right Option b is a joke Since

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when has raising taxes ever been a good way to

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pacify the masses Well the answer is uh never okay

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so we won't quit our day job but still total

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joke we can get rid of the best answer here

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is sikh there's no doubt that the stamp act was

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yet another attempt by britain to maintain control over the

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american colonies However this one was a major flop It

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caused such an outrage that it wasn't long before the

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british were like never mind We were just kidding about

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that one In just a few years however the americans

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were like oh yeah well we were just kidding about

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being brits Yeah that's basically how it went down okay 00:01:57.406 --> [endTime] we won't put our day job

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