Another example of the British trying to exert control over America was with the Molasses Act of 1733. This Act imposed a duty of nine pence per gallon on rum, six pence per gallon on molasses, and five shillings per hundredweight of sugar imported from French or Spanish colonies. The was no tax put on british rum, molasses, or sugar imported from British Colonies. ... After the British recognized that the Molasses Act was ineffective, they amended it with the Suger Act (Morison and Commager). Bribing customs officals into taking 1 and a half pence per gallon not to notice the ...

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Britain put strong regulations on trade and manufacturing like the earlier Wool, Hat, and Molasses Acts. The Sugar Act of 1764 was a raise of taxes on sugar and a lower tax on molasses. ... The Declaration Act of 1766 was an act that stated that Parliament had authority over the colonies. ... The colonists responded by boycotting this act. ... The Mutiny Act of 1765 permanently stationed British troops in the U.S. ...

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Two of the major events commonly regarded as preludes to the American Revolution were the enactment of the Sugar Act (1764) and the Stamp Act (1765), designed to increase British tax revenues. ... Grenville drew up a number of resolutions dealing with new duties, which, after being accepted by Parliament, became know as the Sugar Act, due to the fact that one of the more important resolutions dealt with a new duty on molasses. One of these resolutions was in fact an early draft of what later became known as the Stamp Act, but it was not included in the final version of the Sugar Act. ... Pa...

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Then the slaves would be sent to the West Indies and be traded with sugar and molasses, which was taken back to England to be distilled into run. ... Molasses, sugar, and rum were not allowed for importing from a non "British source. This action was called the Molasses Act. The Molasses Act was not liked among the people of the New World. ...

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These acts, such as the Molasses Act, the Proclamation of 1763, the Sugar Act, the Stamp Act, the Townshend Acts, and the Coercive Acts, combined caused the colonists to be disobedient to the Crown, and helped plant seeds of independence. ... In 1733, the British parliament passed the Molasses Act, which put heavy taxes on imported molasses, except that from the British controlled West Indies. This act was clearly placed on the colonists for British profit; mercantilism at its best. ... Although a few took matters into their own hands and ran molasses under the table, in general the colonists ...

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In 1733 the Molasses Act which placed a prohibitive duty, or tax, on the import of rum and molasses from non-English areas was replaces with the Sugar Act of 1764. The importation of foreign rum was forbidden and put a modest duty on molasses from all sources and levied duties on wines, silks, coffee and many other items that were important to the colonist's economy. The Colonists protested against the Act. ... In order to save British financial difficulty, they passed the Tea Act of 1773 which gave the company the right to export its merchandise directly to the colonies without payin...

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These reasons led the enforcement of the Navigations Act, which placed duties on certain products like molasses, rice, naval stores, furs, sugar and tobacco. ... An act was applied in 1764 called the Sugar Act put taxes on molasses, sugar and a couple of other products this caused protests in new England from the merchants and soon the duty in molasses was reduced. Another act called the Stamp Act was introduced which required all newspaper and legal documents to have a government stamp on it. ... All the merchants refused to import any kind of English goods until the Stamp Act was discontinue...

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It placed taxes on molasses, sugar and other products imported from places outside the British Empire. ... Even though Britain reduced the tax on molasses, the Sugar Act still cut into the business of colonial merchants and ship owners, and rum distillers. The King also enforced the Currency Act. ... Other events such as the Stamp Act, and the Tea Act were the beginning signs of the revolution. ... Also, nine of the thirteen colonies formed the Stamp Act Congress to labor for the revocation of the Stamp Act. ...

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Introduction The Stamp Act The Stamp Act was a law introduced by the British prime minister named George Greenville. ... What Stamp Act Required The Stamp Act required all legal documents, licenses, commercial contracts, newspapers, pamphlets, and playing cards to carry a tax stamp ("Stamp Act..."). The Stamp Act was an act extended to the colonies. ... The previous Molasses Act, Navigation Acts, and the Sugar Act suddenly were seen as an ominous prelude to this final below, the period from the signing of the treaty ending the French and Indian War in 1763 to the first continental Co...

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The British government used and manipulated every law, declaration and legal act meant for the colonies. ... Other legal acts like the Iron Act and Molasses Act followed. The Iron Act prohibited the making of any iron products in the colonies and the Molasses Act put a high tax on imported molasses. ... There were three of these in total, the Justice Act, the Quartering Act, and the Quebec Act. ... The Quartering Act gave the government permission to take over any colonists home if needed. ...

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Beginning in 1733 with the Molasses Act that, "levied a stiff tax on rum, molasses, and sugar produced in the British West Indies for sale to the colonies",[Dig141], people in America began to see that England was growing its economy at the expense of the colonies. In reference to the Stamp Act in 1765, Benjamin Franklin is quoted as saying during a testimony of the act, "I know it is appropriated by the act to the American service; but it will be spent in the conquered colonies, where the soldiers are, not in the colonies that pay it....... The Molasses Act was the first of ma...

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For example the Molasses Act which would have done a "crippling job"(10) on the lucrative and economically important New England rum trade was gotten around by paying the customs officers from a half penny to a penny and a half in return for those officers not collecting sixpence per gallon on molasses imported. ... (51) The fact that brings up this doubt is that they did "submit to the tea and molasses duties during the 1770-1773 periods" (51) "Neither the stamp tax nor the Townshend duties were formidable in themselves, but the colonists saw in each the entering wedge of a movement to depri...

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Introduction Two of the major events commonly regarded as preludes to the American Revolution were the enactment of the Sugar Act (1764) and the Stamp Act (1765), designed to increase British tax revenues. ... Grenville drew up a number of resolutions dealing with new duties, which, after being accepted by Parliament, became know as the Sugar Act, due to the fact that one of the more important resolutions dealt with a new duty on molasses. One of these resolutions was in fact an early draft of what later became known as the Stamp Act, but it was not included in the final version of the Sugar ...

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Before the war, Americans bribed the colonial custom officials to avoid the Molasses Act of 1773. Grenville announced intentions of a colonial stamp tax the following year of the Sugar Act in 1764 which would tax New England on any paper documents such as letters to playing cards. ... February 1768, the Massachusetts's House of Representatives sent a letter to other assemblies condemning the Townshend Act for infringing on the colonists" "natural & constitutional rights." ...

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The Molasses Act of 1733, which tax on the import of rum and molasses not from English. ... They hope the Act could reduce temptation to smuggle it from Dutch and French. Because of Sugar Act, merchants were feared by destroying their business. ... Afterward, the Tea Act, in which the East India Company asked for a monopoly on all tea exported to the colonies. ... This act hit at American merchants. ...

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The colonists became very angry as each new act were passed by England but they were able to find loopholes in these acts. ... Colonists traded their products for sugar and molasses in the West Indies. Then the ships carried the sugar and molasses back to the colonies where they were made into rum. ...

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These acts were also established to prevent molasses trade witch was a big commodity in colonial trade. ... Next, was the Stamp Act. ... The Stamp Act was a tax on all paper items. ... This act caused many oppositional parties to form. Their forms of resistance were shown in the Virginia Stamp Act Resolves. ...

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The fact that this act had not been enforced since the 1650s suggested that the British simply decided that they wanted complete control of the colonist, so they would put these restrictions on them. There was no valid reason for the act. ... The sugar act, the stamp act, and the townshend acts were all ways of taxing the colonists directly to make more money for Britain. ... The taxation of sugar and molasses immensely hurt the colonist's illegal smuggling, as now they would have to pay extra money for sugar and molasses to make other products. ...

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One example of this is the Stamp Act of 1765. ... Another example of this is the Sugar Act of 1764. This is when Britain raised the taxes on sugar and decreased the taxes on molasses. The cause of this act was "To curb the illegal trade with the French islands."... It was bad enough that they had to house the other soldiers that fought in the war because of the Quartering act. ...

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He urged and pleaded with the parliament to introduce a new law and in the end they introduced the revenue act of 1764(sugar act). This placed a three pence tax on each gallon of molasses that entered the colonies from outside the empire. This was quite bad for some colonies as they were huge rum producing counties and some of these colonies depended on the import of the molasses. ... This act was the stamp act and the quartering act. ... The stamp act was the act that really infuriated the colonists. ...

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Also known as the Molasses act, the parliament passed this act to impose restrictions on sugar and molasses entering the colonies. ... This act, similar to the Navigation act, was that it was an external tax, which did not directly affect the colonists. ... This act was the spark, which spurred the negative views towards the English crown. ... This act called for parliament control and gave the king the power to tax the colonists "in all cases whatsoever". ... This would suddenly change when the year of 1763 comes around, because of the passing of the Proclamation act. ...

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It lowered taxes on molasses, but put new taxes on wine, coffee, cloth, and of course sugar. ... In 1764 the Currency Act was passed. ... The colonists reacted to this act by forming a Stamp Act Congress. ... Another Intolerable Act was the new Quartering Act. ... The last Act was the Quebec Act, which extended Canada's boundaries south to the Ohio River. ...

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In 1764, he promoted Parliament to enact a law known as the Sugar Act. This act had played three roles: it halved the duty on foreign made molasses, placed duties on certain imports not taxed before, and it strengthened the way a trial would be presented in which people were caught smuggling. ... The Stamp Act was also another form of taxation. This act taxed all paper products such as newspapers, playing cards and any documents. ... The Sons of Liberty acted in riots and boycotts hoping this would put a stop to the Stamp Act. ...

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With the help of his outspoken opposition to both the Molasses Act and to the Sugar Act, Adams made an impression on the people of the colonies. ... In 1765, he organized a formal protest against the Stamp Act. ... He also planned and coordinated the resistance to the Tea Act, which led to the Boston Tea Party. ...

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