Step 1 : Introduction to the question "5. What was the Stamp Act?"
...1. A tax imposed on the colonists by the British which taxed almost everything made of paper 2. A law that said that all letters to England must have stamps 3. A tax on stamps that the Pilgrims opposed 4. A tax on stamp collections In 1765 the British imposed one of many unfair laws on the colonists. The Stamp Act was one of these laws and said that the colonists had to pay tax on paper items such as mail, newspapers, stamps, and even playing cards.