The Stamp Act was when the colonists had to buy special tax stamps for things that they created in the colonies like newspapers, will, licenses, insurance policies, and on about everything that they made. The Stamp Act was implemented in March 22, 1765 but was later repealed in March 17, 1766. “No taxation without representation” was a phrase used by colonists. It meant that Parliament couldn’t tax the colonists without the colonists agreeing on it. The French and Indian war caused Britain’s war debt to double because of them paying for the soldiers. So the British then enforced the stamp act to get money from the colonists to pay their debt. The colonists were angry and protested and boycotted British goods. The money from the Stamp Act was used to protect and defend the American frontier, near the Appalachian Mountains. Right after parliament repealed the Stamp Act, the issued a Declaratory Act which said that they had the authority to pass any colonial legislation that it saw was right. The British Constitution said that Englishmen had the right of being taxed only by representatives of their choosing. But by passing the Stamp Act, the colonists thought that British were violating their rights. The colonists said that the Stamp Act was the last straw. The British had already made acts like the Sugar Act, The Navigation Act, The Molasses Act and more. This then led to the Intolerable Acts that responded to the Boston Tea Party. After the Intolerable Acts were put into play, the first Continental Congress was formed with a representative from every state except Georgia. Their goal was to identify Parliament’s violations of their rights and to respond to the Intolerable Acts. During the Stamp Act, the Virginia House of Burgesses was rushing through a set of resolutions to protest the tax. Then, the resolutions that Virginia made were printed in the newspapers and spread through the colonies. This made the other colonies come up with their own resolutions for the act and everyone started to protest.