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What was the colonial reaction to the sugar act?
The colonial reaction to the sugar act was smuggling sugar and molasses.
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
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 was the colonists reaction to the tea act?
Boycotted it
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.
What did the colonists do to get rid of the Sugar Act?
They would stop buying sugar , molasses, and other sweetened goods.
