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smuggling
Colonists were smuggling and they wanted to teach them a lesson.
sugar act :)
This was the Sugar Act.
The colonists resorted to smuggling goods and other materials instead of paying the taxes.
The Navigation Acts encouraged smuggling because there was no method of controlling it. The Dutch offered a much better deal to the colonists, thus making smuggling in Dutch imports and smuggling out exports to the Dutch very worthwhile.
The British government tried to stop American colonists from smuggling with the Sugar Act.
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They became strict because they wanted the smuggling of sugar.
H.M.S. Gaspee
H.M.S. Gaspee