What happened when Congress asked for the 5 percent tax
It quickly passed
It resulted in a year of debates,
Americans threatened to rebel.
TO NAVE American credit from destruction, it
was at least necessary that the interest on the
public debt should be paid. For this purpose
Congress in 1781 naked permission to levy a
live per cent. duty on imports. The modest
request was the signal for a year of angry
Wiscussion. Donkey, fond of reasoning from
analow asked if taxes could thus bellevied
by any power outside the State, why had we
aver opposed the Stamp Act or the ten duties?
DONE