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The Revenue Act of 1764, also known as the Sugar Act was passed by Parliament, because it reduced the duties on imported sugar and other products imported from other places outside of the British Empire.

However, smugglers were able to avoid the earlier duties. To ensure that this tax would now be collected, and to stamp out smuggling, the act placed several courts in the major American seaports.

These courts had no juries. Naval judges examined evidence, weighed guilt, and passed sentence. The system was simple and effective.

The colonists didn't like any taxes that King George III placed upon them. It would eventually take the American Revolutionary War to put a stop it.

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The Molasses Act of March 1733 was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain, which imposed a tax of six pence per gallon on imports of molasses from non-British colonies.The Act was not passed for the purpose of raising revenue, but rather to regulate trade by making British products cheaper than those from the French West Indies.

Largely opposed by colonists, the tax was rarely paid, and smuggling to avoid it was prominent. If actually collected, the tax would have effectively closed that source to New England and destroyed much of the rum industry. Yet smuggling, bribery or intimidation of customs officials effectively nullified the law.

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The molasses act of 1733 and the sugar act of 1764 were enacted to encourage American colonists to purchase molasses and sugar from?

England.


Purpose of sugar act?

The act lowered the tax on molasses imported by the colonists


What allowed the colonists to pay lower taxes on molasses?

sugar act


Which was not a reason the Sugar Act was objectionable to the American Colonists?

It raised the duty on molasses.


How did the passage of the Sugar Act affect the colonists in Georgia?

They imported molasses, which was used for rum


How did the British react to the colonists reaction?

The act that upset the colonists was the Stamp Act, putting tax on all printed material, and the Sugar Act further angered the colonists, as the English were trying to make a monopoly with molasses taxes. The colonists responded with a few kids throwing snowballs at the English soldiers, and they raised their guns. The snowballs were then filled with sharp objects, and a shot rang out, and that shot was known as the shot that started the Revolutionary War.


Which of act of parliament was passed to force the new England colonists to buy sugar from the British west indies?

molasses act


Which act of parliament was passed to force the new England colonists to buy sugar from the british to west indies?

molasses act


Which act of parliament was passed to force the new England Colonists to buy sugar from the british west indies?

molasses act


What did the colonists do to get rid of the Sugar Act?

They would stop buying sugar , molasses, and other sweetened goods.


How did colonists react to the stamp act the quartering act and the sugar act?

They asked King George to repeal them and he did.


What was the effect on colonists at the sugar at?

well, the sugar act of 1764 was again passed by King George and the british parliamnent. The earlier Molasses Act of 1733 which imposed a tax of six pence per gallon of molasses.