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AP U.S. History 3.1 Period 3: 1754-1800. Which of the following best describes the goals of the Stamp Act?
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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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