After defeating the French, the British needed to pay off a large amount of debt from the war. The colonists were unhappy in 1756 when the Stamp Act was passed because it forced all colonists to pay for a stamp on all official papers. This act angered the colonists, jeopardizing their relationship with the British because they couldn’t grasp why they were being forced to pay taxes now. The colonists boycotted and created a resistance called the Sons of Liberty. In result to an excessive amount of protesting over many months, the British Parliament revoked this specific act in March of 1766. This revokement didn’t take away all taxes, it only ended the enforcement of taxes on