<P> The purpose of the tax was to pay for British military troops stationed in the American colonies after the French and Indian War , which was the North American theater of the Seven Years ' War . However , the colonists had never feared a French invasion to begin with , and they contended that they had already paid their share of the war expenses . They suggested that it was actually a matter of British patronage to surplus British officers and career soldiers who should be paid by London . </P>
why did the stamp act of 1765 happen
to pay for British military troops stationed in the American colonies after the French and Indian War