The stamp act became another excuse to take people's money. Passed in the early 1765, the stamp act forced all legal documents to posses a government tax stamp. Items like playing cards, newspapers, almanacs, even printed sermons were either stamped or taken away. In many places mobs rioted, forcing stamp agents to resign. The people dissaproved of the stamp act so much that in Philadelphia, colonists hung a dummy which represented a stamp agent. Parliament did eventually repeal the act, but the colonists later dealt with another act, the Townsend act.
In 1767, Charles Townsend created a new way of taxation. Soon, lead, paint, paper and glass were some of the items that began being taxed. To the already peaved colonists, this was another case of taxation without representation. In 1770, parliament repealed all the townshend acts except for the tax on