Passed on April 5, 1764 by Parliament, the Sugar Act was a remodeled version of the Sugar and Molasses of 1733, which was about to expire. Under the Sugar and Molasses act of 1733, merchants in the Colonies were required to pay six pence per gallon on the importation of foreign molasses, however, due to English policy of salutary neglect, merchants often smuggled goods in rather the have the burden of paying taxes. Parliament implemented the Sugar Act in order to produce new revenue for Britain, while also stopping trade between the colonies and the French, Dutch, and Spanish. This tax was the most enforced tax at the time, with the British Navy inspecting merchants for smuggled goods and an increased British presence. Even though Parliament…
This act forbade settlement anywhere that passed a line drawn which went through the Appalachian Mountains. Sugar Acts (Revenue Act) of 1764, which is the next act created, was an adjusted version of the Sugar and Molasses Act of 1733. This act puts taxes on sugar and other goods. Then it goes to the…
On April 5, 1764, British Parliament pass a new tax, which took place of the Sugar and Molasses Act (1733). This act caused taxes on imports of sugar, coffee, and other goods entering the ports of the American colonies and was created and designed by England to raise funds to recover the French and Indian War damage. This meant that all colonial merchants were required to pay a tax of six percent of a total gallon to import foreign molasses. It started by, getting harder to load and unload cargo for merchant ships,which was intended to make smuggling more difficult. Then, there was a tax on foreign goods.…
The Sugar Act was a British Law passed by Parliament during the reign of King George III. This act set a tax on sugar and molasses, and other foreign goods, imported to the colonies. The Stamp Act was another act passed by Parliament that set a tax in the form of a stamp required on all newspaper, legal and commercial documents. The Sugar Act was passed in 1774 and the Stamp Act in 1765 both to help raise revenue for the British. These acts made the colonists upset because they were essentially being taxed to pay for a war…
The original Sugar and Molasses act put a tax of six pence on a gallon of imported molasses, but they mostly evaded the tax by buying English molasses instead of importing it from the French West Indies. However, the new Sugar Act reduced this tax to three pence at an attempt to reduce smuggling. The British Prime Minister ordered the navy to enforce the tax which led to the almost immediate decline in rum. There were also many more restrictions as well as taxes put on other goods such as sugar, wines and coffee. This act was initiated in hopes to raise 100,000 pounds, which was roughly one-fifth of the North American military expenses.…
However, the real lack of enforcement on the Colonial side made for smuggled French molasses products to be much cheaper. It is due to lost profits that the Sugar Act became law. The active and aggressive enforcement style that the Crown went with made smuggling no longer a viable option for the cheap import of French Caribbean products. Even though the import tax on French molasses products became half of its Molasses Act price, the English products were still much cheaper.…
This act is what initiated colonial rebellion against British Parliament. Due to the lack of revenue generated from the Sugar Act, the Stamp Act was implemented into law, which led to the Declaratory Act, and later…
The act that angered the colonists the most was the Coercive/Intolerable Act Mass. Government Act and Admin of Justice Act. This act seemed to control the colonists the most. Anytime the colonists wanted to meet other colonists or people, they weren’t allowed to unless the government approves them to meet. It also stopped imports unless given permission to continue. The colonists would most likely get frustrated by this act and would get angry at it.…
This act made the tax on sugar from the French and Spanish West Indies much higher than it would be from the British West Indies. The British hoped that by enforcing the Sugar Act the colonies would buy from the British Islands or…
Sugar Act The Sugar Act was the first law that raised revenue for England and increased the sugar that was being imported from the West Indies. The colonists protested and eventually the dues were lowered calming them down. Stamp Act The Stamp Act was created to raise money to fund the new British military. The act required…
In 1764 the Sugar Act was enacted to raise tax revenue in the colonies for England and it increased the duty on sugar imported from the West Indies. However, the colonists were accustomed to having their own colonial legislatures creating taxes, so they fought back when Britain tried to control them. In 1765 the Stamp Act mandated the use of stamps on certain types of commercial and legal documents. The purpose of this tax was to raise revenue for the new military force, but the colonists did not want to pay for an army they did not ask for. The Townshend Tea Tax placed an import duty on glass, lead, paper, paint, and tea in 1767.…
Sugar: A Bittersweet History The author's main point in this novel is to illustrate the significance of sugar in world history. Sugar has slowly made its way from the highest of society to the lower and middle classes. Sugar took over the world it went into the households of many and became apart of the diet everyone.…
The first act that was passed was the Quartering act which forced the soldiers to live with the colonist and this proposed an issue because the colonists did not like to be told what to do. The next act to be passed was the Sugar Act, this act was made so the colonists would have to pay tax on molasses that were…
Coffee, sugar, and wine were subject to higher taxing, this was known as the Sugar Act. Annual Revenue from the Sugar Act would help offset the cost of imperial administration. George Grenville was indifferent about the opinions of the colonists. His major goal was to raise a substantial tax revenue in the colonies. He finally got what he wanted with the Stamp Act of March 1765, the capstone of his imperial program.…
The goal of it was to raise revenue from American colonists. This Act imposed a tax on sugar and molasses imported into the thirteen colonies which affected the economic and the constitutional problem of taxation without representation. Therefore, it led to anger the American colonists and made their lives more difficult. Regardless of the income raised by the Sugar Act, British Parliament continued to impose a new tax on the colonies. In 1765, The Stamp Act created to make American colonists pay a new tax on every piece of printed paper they used in order to protect them.…