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where things are suddenly being regulated in some way
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that they haven't seemed to be before.
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We have the threat of directly overriding colonial legislation
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and legislatures.
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So you can see why all of these things would have been pretty alarming,
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but there were also two important unintended outcomes of the Stamp Act,
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in addition to all of those raised fears.
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Unintended outcome number one:
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Because the Stamp Act attacked all of the colonies equally,
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it actually helped to join them together in shared cause.
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And second, unintended outcome number two:
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by attacking people who used paper particularly-- right?--