Stamp Act targeted those who dealt in documents aka the press, lawyers and land owners/merchants. Said people buy ink by the barrel, and was a poor decision by ol King George.
However, taxes before the war were much much lower than what came after, which triggered two rebellions that the original US govt barely survived. Then the Constitution. Without the anti federalists we wouldn't have the Bill of Rights
To go even further back, the English Civil War was fired up by the printing press, and a bunch of newspapers stoking anti Catholic bias in England as the King had married a Catholic
Stamp Act targeted those who dealt in documents aka the press, lawyers and land owners/merchants. Said people buy ink by the barrel, and was a poor decision by ol King George.
However, taxes before the war were much much lower than what came after, which triggered two rebellions that the original US govt barely survived. Then the Constitution. Without the anti federalists we wouldn't have the Bill of Rights
To go even further back, the English Civil War was fired up by the printing press, and a bunch of newspapers stoking anti Catholic bias in England as the King had married a Catholic