... British people and strengthening of the central government. 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 ... getting anything in return. The British wanted to use up all of the resources and raw materials of America, without the colonies resisting. After the British recognized that the Molasses Act was ineffective, they ...

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... a cargo of rum would travel to Africa in order to be traded for slaves. 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. Then the whole thing would start all over again. Every single time a trade took place, a profit would be made ... of trading with the West Indies. Attempting to solve the problem, they discouraged any trade that wasn't with a British source. Molasses, sugar, and rum were not allowed for importing from a non "British source. This action was called the Molasses Act. The Mola...

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... food. If this was true then why shouldn't the colonists be taxed more? These reasons led the enforcement of the Navigations Act, which placed duties on certain products like molasses, rice, naval stores, furs, sugar and tobacco. Also the colonies could only trade with England, from there the English would ... continued westward, this was easy to accomplish, as the English troops were to thinly spaced across the boarder. 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 so...

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... in turn, caused confrontation between the colonists and the English. 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. Short Term Causes In June 1767 the English Parliament decided to cut British land taxes. In order to make up ...

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... or Spanish ships could sell or trade their goods to the colonies and the colonies could not sell raw materials to them. The colonists became very angry as each new act were passed by England but they were able to find loopholes in these acts. Smuggling and piracy became a huge business. Another way was through the Triangle Trade Routes. To trade ... the colonies. Another use of the Triangle Trade Routes were to bring African slaves to the Americas. Colonists traded their products for sugar and molasses in the West Indies. Then the ships carried the sugar and molasses back to the colonie...

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... lead these colonies to ask themselves if they should do just that, break away from England. In the end with England's unnecessary taxations and act's of all verities would lead to the American Revolution, which would begin in April 1775. The increasing involvement and tightening control of the British ... was appointed first minister, by King George III to solving England's debt crisis.# This act is the beginning of Britain's colonies, America to resist imperial control over them. The Sugar act reduced the sale of molasses to three pence per gallon and then it was further reduced to on...

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... them and taking advantage of their services. The colonists would put up with this for only so much longer before they would begin to act on their feelings of rebellion. Even though the colonists were fulfilling most of their mercantilist roles, however, not all of the goods ... the country without paying duties. 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 wer...

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