Britain put strong regulations on trade and manufacturing like the earlier Wool, Hat, and Molasses Acts. The Sugar Act of 1764 was a raise of taxes on sugar and a lower tax on molasses. ... The Declaration Act of 1766 was an act that stated that Parliament had authority over the colonies. ... The colonists responded by boycotting this act. ... The Mutiny Act of 1765 permanently stationed British troops in the U.S. ...

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The British government used and manipulated every law, declaration and legal act meant for the colonies. ... Other legal acts like the Iron Act and Molasses Act followed. The Iron Act prohibited the making of any iron products in the colonies and the Molasses Act put a high tax on imported molasses. ... There were three of these in total, the Justice Act, the Quartering Act, and the Quebec Act. ... The Quartering Act gave the government permission to take over any colonists home if needed. ...

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For example the Molasses Act which would have done a "crippling job"(10) on the lucrative and economically important New England rum trade was gotten around by paying the customs officers from a half penny to a penny and a half in return for those officers not collecting sixpence per gallon on molasses imported. ... (51) The fact that brings up this doubt is that they did "submit to the tea and molasses duties during the 1770-1773 periods" (51) "Neither the stamp tax nor the Townshend duties were formidable in themselves, but the colonists saw in each the entering wedge of a movement to depri...

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With the help of his outspoken opposition to both the Molasses Act and to the Sugar Act, Adams made an impression on the people of the colonies. ... In 1765, he organized a formal protest against the Stamp Act. ... He also planned and coordinated the resistance to the Tea Act, which led to the Boston Tea Party. ...

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This act lowered molasses duties and levied new taxes on sugar and other commodities. ... Another taxation act passed was called "The Stamp Act." ... Parliament ended up repealing the Stamp Act, but instead passed the Declaratory Act. ... The next act passed was the Townshend Act. ... The final act came when the British passed the Tea Act. ...

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Going further back then many of the intolerable acts that England would try to enforce on the American people, such as the stamp act or the Townsheds act. ... Some of these acts include the Stamp Act, The Sugar and Currency Act and a few others. Looking at the Sugar act, which was created in 1763 by George Grenville who was appointed first minister, by King George III to solving England's debt crisis.# This act is the beginning of Britain's colonies, America to resist imperial control over them. The Sugar act reduced the sale of molasses to three pence per gallon and then it was furt...

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