These reasons led the enforcement of the Navigations Act, which placed duties on certain products like molasses, rice, naval stores, furs, sugar and tobacco. ... An act was applied in 1764 called the Sugar Act put taxes on molasses, sugar and a couple of other products this caused protests in new England from the merchants and soon the duty in molasses was reduced. Another act called the Stamp Act was introduced which required all newspaper and legal documents to have a government stamp on it. ... All the merchants refused to import any kind of English goods until the Stamp Act was discontinue...

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Why the English Came to America? 1. Economic Reasons: - Inflation- The Spanish drove prices up because of their wasteful spending. - Unemployment- There were not enough jobs in England and debtor prisoner were becoming overcrowded...

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