The primary purpose of the Stamp Act was to: a) regulate the transatlantic mail. b) raise badly needed revenues. c) punish the unruly North American colonists. d) assuage the fears of the British government that the American colonies were getting too wealthy. e) limit American political dissent.
The reasoning for this is because the army needed funding and most of the time it had no way of doing so, so the people in charge decided to make money off of small things.
