Question

Why did Parliament raise taxes throughout all of England?

They needed more money to send more people to America.

They French were demanding reparations.

They wanted to send more money to the colonies.

The government was broke.

Answer 1

The British needed to station a large army in North America as a consequence and on 22 March 1765 the British Parliament passed the Stamp Act, which sought to raise money to pay for this army through a tax on all legal and official papers and publications circulating in the colonies.