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Many merchants smuggled French molasses and had never paid the duty.

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American merchants were what by the Embargo Act?

American merchants were hurt by the Embargo Act more than Britain and France.


The american revenue act was commonly known as?

The Sugar Act


A sentence that uses the word sugar act?

The Sugar Act was passed by the British in 1764 to regulate the sugar trade in the American colonies.


The group most adversely affected by the passage of the Sugar Act 1764 was?

New England merchants who had to buy the sugar from the suppliers with high taxes.


What was the colonist response to the sugar act?

colonial merchants often traded in smuggled goods, reacted with anger.


Sugar act effect?

The Sugar Act had multiple effects. First, it was considered too strict and costly for merchants in America, but not in the British West Indies. It was passed during a depression in the colonial economy. It also contributed to the growth in smuggling, for the production and distribution of rum. It was also a contributing factor leading to the American Revolution.


Did the sugar act take place in France?

The Sugar Act took place in the American Colonies before the Revolution.


How many years elapsed from the Sugar Act to the American Revolution?

Sugar Act was passed in 1764, the American Revolution began in 1775, so 11 years.


What year did the sugar act start and end?

The Sugar Act, also known as the American Revenue Act, was passed in 1764 and repealed in 1766.


What law prevented American merchants form trading with Britain and France?

The Embargo Act of 1807


Why did in the American colonies began smuggling goods why?

Navigation Act allowed merchants to choose the buyer.


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

England.