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THE UNFINISHED NATION

A CONCISE HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE

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In 1765 Parliament passed the first internal tax on the colonists, known as the Stamp Act. Benjamin Franklin was a colonial agent in London at the time, and as colonial opposi-tion to the act grew, he found himself repre-senting these views to the British government. In his testimony from Parliament he describes the role of taxes in Pennsylvania and the economic relationship between the colonies and the mother country.

Q. What is your name, and place of abode?A. Franklin, of Philadelphia.Q. Do the Americans pay any considerable

taxes among themselves?A. Certainly many, and very heavy taxes.Q. What are the present taxes in

Pennsylvania, laid by the laws of the colony?

A. There are taxes on all estates, real and personal; a poll tax; a tax on all offices, professions, trades, and businesses, according to their profits; an excise on all wine, rum, and other spirit; and a duty of ten pounds per head on all Negroes imported, with some other duties.

Q. For what purposes are those taxes laid?A. For the support of the civil and military

establishments of the country, and to discharge the heavy debt contracted in the last [Seven Years’] war. . . .

Q. Are not all the people very able to pay those taxes?

A. No. The frontier counties, all along the continent, have been frequently ravaged by the enemy and greatly impoverished, are able to pay very little tax. . . .

Q. Are not the colonies, from their circum-stances, very able to pay the stamp duty?

A. In my opinion there is not gold and silver enough in the colonies to pay the stamp duty for one year.

Q. Don’t you know that the money arising from the stamps was all to be laid out in America?

A. I know it is appropriated by the act to the American service; but it will be spent in theconquered colonies, where the soldiersare, not in the colonies that pay it.

Q. Do you think it right that America should be protected by this country and pay no part of the expense?

A. That is not the case. The colonies raised, clothed, and paid, during the last war, near25,000 men, and spent many millions.

Q. Were you not reimbursed by Parliament?A. We were only reimbursed what, in your

opinion, we had advanced beyond our pro-portion, or beyond what might reasonablybe expected from us; and it was a verysmall part of what we spent. Pennsylvania,in particular, disbursed about 500,000pounds, and the reimbursements, in thewhole, did not exceed 60,000 pounds. . . .

Q. Do you think the people of America would submit to pay the stamp duty, if it was moderated?

A. No, never, unless compelled by force of arms. . . .

Q. What was the temper of America towards Great Britain before the year 1763?

A. The best in the world. They submitted willingly to the government of theCrown, and paid, in all their courts, obe-dience to acts of Parliament. . . .

Q. What is your opinion of a future tax,imposed on the same principle with that of the Stamp Act? How would theAmericans receive it?

A. Just as they do this. They would not pay it.Q. Have not you heard of the resolutions of

this House, and of the House of Lords, asserting the right of Parliament relating to America, including a power to tax the people there?

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, TESTIMONY AGAINST THE STAMP ACT (1766)

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Table of ContentsCHAPTER 17 Industrial SupremacyCHAPTER 18 The Age of the CityCHAPTER 19 From Crisis to EmpireCHAPTER 20 The ProgressivesCHAPTER 21 America and the Great WarCHAPTER 22 The New EraCHAPTER 23 The Great DepressionCHAPTER 24 The New Deal EraCHAPTER 25 America in a World at WarCHAPTER 26 The Cold WarCHAPTER 27 The Affluent SocietyCHAPTER 28 The Turbulent SixtiesCHAPTER 29 The Crisis of AuthorityCHAPTER 30 From “The Age of Limits” to the Age of ReaganCHAPTER 31 The Age of Globalization

CHAPTER 1 The Collision of CulturesCHAPTER 2 Transplantations and BorderlandsCHAPTER 3 Society and Culture in Provincial AmericaCHAPTER 4 The Empire in TransitionCHAPTER 5 The American RevolutionCHAPTER 6 The Constitution and the New RepublicCHAPTER 7 The Jeffersonian EraCHAPTER 8 Expansion and Division in the Early RepublicCHAPTER 9 Jacksonian AmericaCHAPTER 10 America’s Economic RevolutionCHAPTER 11 Cotton, Slavery, and the Old SouthCHAPTER 12 Antebellum Culture and ReformCHAPTER 13 The Impending CrisisCHAPTER 14 The Civil WarCHAPTER 15 Reconstruction and the New SouthCHAPTER 16 The Conquest of the Far West

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