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What is Parliament's reason for passing the Stamp Act?

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Also needed a way to help pay debts that we piling up from the wars. Their way was passing taxes.
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The reason why they passed the stamp act is to pay for British troops stationed in the colonies during the Seven Year's War. The act required the colonists to pay a tax represented by a stamp in various forms.
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