Answer:In an effort to raise funds to pay off debts and defend the vast new American territories won from the French in the Seven Years' War (1756-1763), the British government passes the Stamp Act on March 22, 1765.
The act, which imposed a tax on all paper documents in the colonies, came at a time when the British Empire was deep in debt from the Seven Years' War (1756-63) and looking to its North American colonies as a revenue source
B. Mills no longer had to sit by flowing rivers and use water for power.
D. Ships did not have to depend on wind.
E. Machines could work at rates faster than human power ever allowed.
