Stamp Act
The French and Indian War had been an expensive undertaking for Britain. The national debt had doubled and the cost of military protection for the North American colonies had soared. Not unreasonably, the British were inclined to asked the American colonies to contribute money. George Grenville, the Whig Prime Minister, floated the idea of a stamp tax to pay some of these expenses.
The plan was not well received in the colonies. In Connecticut, the Assembly requested Governor Thomas Fitch to put together a list of objections to the plan. This he did, but his document, while critical of the proposed tax, conceded the right of Britain to apply some kind of tax to raise revenue for its colonial expenses.
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