Beginning in 1733 with the Molasses Act that, "levied a stiff tax on rum, molasses, and sugar produced in the British West Indies for sale to the colonies",[Dig141], people in America began to see that England was growing its economy at the expense of the colonies. In reference to the Stamp Act in 1765, Benjamin Franklin is quoted as saying during a testimony of the act, "I know it is appropriated by the act to the American service; but it will be spent in the conquered colonies, where the soldiers are, not in the colonies that pay it....... The Molasses Act was the first of ma...

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The first trade issue the colonies had with England was the Molasses Act of 1731, British Parliament passed this act which would tax all sugar, rum and molasses imported from foreign countries, and would also protect English merchants who had invested in plantations in these countries. Had this act been truly enforced, it could have severely damaged the colonial economy. ... This resulted in the passing of the Hat Act, which banned all colonial hat makers from exporting their products to other colonies or Europe. ... Third, he passed the Sugar Act of 1764, which cut in half the amount of taxat...

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Many new laws were passed and introduced by the British into the colonies, such as the Sugar Act of 1764, the Stamp Act of 1765, the Quartering Act of 1767, the Townshend Act of 1767, and the Tea Act of 1770. ... The "Sugar Act" or "Revenue Act" was introduced by George Grenville and the act entailed three crucial steps. ... The second of these steps was to "secure British markets for British planters" by extending upon the "Molasses Act" of 1733 whereby the taxes upon harvests from the Sugar Colonies (Jamaica and Barbados) were to be halved and heavily enforced so as to raise revenue for the...

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Many new laws were passed and introduced by the British into the colonies, such as the Sugar Act of 1764, the Stamp Act of 1765, the Quartering Act of 1767, the Townshend Act of 1767, and the Tea Act of 1770. ... The "Sugar Act" or "Revenue Act" was introduced by George Grenville and the act entailed three crucial steps. ... The second of these steps was to "secure British markets for British planters" by extending upon the "Molasses Act" of 1733 whereby the taxes upon harvests from the Sugar Colonies (Jamaica and Barbados) were to be halved and heavily enforced so as to raise revenue for the...

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The issue of English control in the American colonies was extended with mercantilist acts like the enumeration of staples and the Molasses act. ... After 1764, following the end of the colonial wars with France, England again tried to re-exert control over the colonies with the Revenue (Sugar) Act, 1764, the Colonial Currency Act, 1764 and the Stamp Act of 1765 . ...

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Parliament passed the Sugar Act of 1764, and the Stamp Act the following year. ... The Sugar Act placed a tax on sugar, molasses, and other products shipped to the colonies. ... Unlike the Sugar Act that mainly affected merchants, the Stamp Act was a tax within the colonies and it fell directly on all colonists. ... The Stamp Act Congress believes that the Stamp Act took away their freedom as colonists. ... The merchants had set up many tactics to repeal this Act. ...

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In 1764, Britain passed a law known as the Currency Act, preventing the colonies to print and use their own money. These and several other laws including the Sugar Act which imposed a taxes on American commodities such as sugar, molasses, textiles, coffee and indigo, were passed to tighten the English reign on the colonies. ... The representatives sent a letter to England asking that the Stamp Act be repealed however, the British government denied it and instead, imposed more new taxes on the colonies such as the Townshend Act. ... The final result of the French and Indian War was the passage ...

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The British government of the time favored a policy of mercantilism, although laws such as the Navigation Act were only loosely enforced to regulate commerce in the British interest. ... While the tax levied on sugar and molasses in 1764 was smaller than the one already on the books, the promise of "stringent enforcement" was not appreciated by the colonists. In 1765 the British Parliament passed the Stamp Act, which roused a violent colonial outcry. After much protest from leaders such as James Otis, Samuel Adams and Patrick Henry which included the threat of boycott and the refusal to imp...

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