The Stamp Act Congress was formed in October 1765 after the British government passed another tax on the Colonists. The Congress was formed to determine how to react.
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To draw up a petition to the king protesting the stamp act. The petition declared that the right to tax the colonies belonged to the colonial assemblies, not to parliament.
The colonists reacted to the stamp act by boycotting it, but sometimes they would comprimise by giving the buyer a stamp without paying the tax then the buyer would pay the person to stamp it.
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James Otis, Jr. was the Boston lawyer who proposed the Stamp Act Congress. It was also known as the First Congress of the American Colonies.
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