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Why did the stamp act of 1765 anger the colonists

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It raised prices of their exports so that they could pay a king to wage wars in a far off land.
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Because they added a tax on stamps. Stamps were used on all legal documents, so the colonists did not want to pay extra money on every single legal document
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