What was one of the outcomes of the Stamp Act?

A) Lower-class riots in response to the act began to worry elite rulers and landholders.
B) The Stamp Act Congress insisted that the right to consent to taxation was essential to people's freedom.
C) The Stamp Act Congress adopted the Declaratory Act, which formally defined American liberties.
D) Thomas Jefferson publicly stated that revolting against Great Britain had become necessary.
E) Disagreements about the best response to the act split colonial governments into opposing factions.

Stamp Act Congress

A meeting of delegates from several American colonies in 1765, formed to protest the British Stamp Act and organize resistance.

Declaratory Act

A law passed by the British Parliament in 1766 stating that the British government had the same power to tax and make laws for the American colonies "in all cases whatsoever" as it did in Britain.

Stamp Act

Parliament’s 1765 requirement that revenue stamps be affixed to all colonial printed matter, documents, and playing cards; the Stamp Act Congress met to formulate a response, and the act was repealed the following year.