How is the Stamp Act an example of the British attempt to make the colonists pay for the French and Indian War?
Please provide the best answer for the statement.
The ideal answer should:
1. Explain the high cost for the British government in the French and Indian War that necessitated new taxes to pay for it.
2. Explain the passage of the Stamp Act as a tax on official documents and other paper products purchased in the colonies.
3. Explain how the colonists reacted to the Stamp Act with protests and petitions and violence.
4. Explain how Great Britain responded to the colonial defiance of the act by repealing it more than a year later.
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