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Stephan contemplated before he sat down, pulling the chair out slowly, dreading the family's nightly dinner conversation, what Great Britain was doing wrong. First they moved away to the new land, then Britain gave them grief. The proclamation of 1763, when King George told the colonists not to move westward, and the Indians not to move east, there was almost a hand drawn line. The colonists were not very happy, next year, came the sugar act in 1764. The taxes were high on cloth, sugar, coffee, and wine for the colonists, and the naval officers searched ships carefully to stop smuggling. The colonists were, again, not happy. Now, a year later, was another act, the stamp act, and I bet you can guess, the colonists were not very happy.

Parliament decided that the colonies should help pay towards the cost of the recent war debt and for future defense. The first step towards this was the Revenue Act of 1764, generally referred to as the Sugar Act. The Sugar Act was also known as “an Act with Teeth,”(Mass Historical Society) symbolizing that it was an act with depth or of importance. The Act itself was divided into two sections. First, it was intended to raise money from trade between the British colonies in America. It levied import duties on a list of raw materials including: sugar, coffee, indigo, wine, rum, lumber, and various cloths. The Sugar Act made the Molasses Act of 1733 perpetual. Although it cut the tax on molasses in half, from sixpence to threepence per gallon, to discourage smuggling and to make the tax attractive. Second, the Act revamped and reinvigorated the customs service, which managed the collection of these import duties. For the first time, colonists argued that Parliament was depriving them of a fundamental constitutional right to have these goods duty free.

The Act of 1764, also known as The Sugar Act, lowered the taxes on molasses but also it had more ways to enforce the tax. In addition to the tax on molasses they taxed things such as silks, wines, and potash. The Americans were outraged with this new law. The colonists did whatever they could to ignore this new law. The British passed the Quartering Act which basically said that the American colonists have to house and feed British forces who were serving in North America. This inflamed the

In 1761 the British began to reinforce writs of assistance, laws that granted customs officials the authority to conduct random searches of property to seek out goods on which required duties had not been paid, not only in public establishments but in private homes. The next step was the Sugar Act of 1764, and it quickly became apparent that the purpose of the act was to extract revenue from America.  The Molasses Act of 1733 had placed a tax of six pence per gallon on sugar and molasses imported into the colonies.  In 1764 the British lowered the tax to three pence but now eventually decided to enforce it.  In addition, taxes were to be placed on other items such as wines, coffee, and textile products, and other restrictions were applied, this upset the colonists.  Madaras L, SoRelle J (2011) & Wood S. G. (2003)

After the Peace of Paris, 1763, the British, after fifty years, felt at peace after several years of wars. However, they were also left with a tremendous amount of debts, which led them to enforce several policies, taxes and acts in the colonies, wrecking the colonial and the British relationship. The prime minister to George III, George Grenville, introduced a series of Acts to the colonists that issued a tax on certain supplies. After the proclamation of 1763 that restricted the colonist from traveling westward of the Appalachian Mountains. This angered the colonists greatly and they resisted by continuing to move westward, making the proclamation ineffective. Under Grenville’s program, the very first taxation on sugar was passed under the Sugar Act of 1764. It raised taxes on sugar and reduced taxes on molasses. This only affected few of the merchants,

Britain had never directly taxed the colonists before. The rum producers protested that the tax would diminish their profits because the rum industries depended on the imported molasses.

It was estimated that £225,000 a year was spent to station troops in the colonies after the seven years war. This increased cost caused British parliament to look for new ways to raise revenue from the colonies. Parliament sent George Grenville to raise this revenue, and he did it through passing tax laws. The Sugar act of 1764 was passed to replace the old molasses act, and stop the colonial practice of smuggling. It was widely ignored and caused increased tension between the colonies and

This rebellion was dubbed as, The American Revolution. The catalyst of the American Revolution cannot be credited to one single event. The French and Indian War was the start of open conflicts between the colonies and Great Britain (Butler). After this war, the British were in a massive amount of debt (“Parliament Debates”). In early 1765, The British Parliament was struggling to meet the cost of defending its empire in North America. The only logical way that the British thought to relieve this problem was through the colonies, thus the passing of The Stamp Act was born (“Parliament Debates”). The British saw the thirteen colonies as a direct investment and extension of Great Britain, meanwhile the colonists were striving towards independence. “(The) once harmonious relations between Britain and the colonies became increasingly conflict- riven” (“Colonists Responds”). At this point, the

Which is why they had come up with the Quartering Act, assemblies made the colonials pay for supplies and let the British soldiers stay in their housed for free British Parliament, and King George III, viewed these actions as aggressive to the British effort to defend imperial territories. Another major area of argument was taxation. The colonies had profited greatly form the war. Military contracts and expenses by British troops had meant a large inflow of British money. Trade grew, and many American's traded many goods with the French West Indies. This trade was illegal at this time, and seen as ethically bad during a war against the French, but it had proved a lot of their profit at the time. The British national duty had climbed from 72 million pounds before the war to 132 million at its end. To pay down this debt, Britain started a land tax at home, and forced remove tax on many commonly traded goods. The Sugar Act was the first attempt to funding the cover of the colonies by the British Government. In order to prevent stealing and to reassure the making of the British rum, taxes on molasses were dropped. The Stamp

They renewed the Act in 1764 with some provisions which was in their favor. At a quick glance at the tax, it looks like it would favor the Colonies because it went from six pence per gallon to three pence per gallon on molasses. But, before the law was rewritten, the Colonies were smuggling their molasses from the French West Indies to avoid paying the tax which made it cheaper than the products coming from Britain. Since the colonies were not paying the tax, the products from the French was much cheaper than the products from Britain. Along with the tax the British also mandated that the Navy enforcement the new tax and stop the illegal smuggling of sugar and molasses from the French. The British also made stricter punishments for people caught smuggling. The punishment being, once caught, you were not entitled to a trial by jury but from only a judge. This made the punishment for smuggling much stricter than before. This was done to motivate the people to stop smuggling and buy their products from the

The Sugar Act was introduced in the 13 colonies on April 5th, 1764. During the first stages of the sugar act, all colonial merchants were required to pay taxes on every single gallon of molass, with six pence (their form of money). Near the end of introducing the act, the Parliament decided that since everyone was either trying to avoid the taxes, they decided to make the sugar act lower the cost of molass to three pence, as well as many others to be taxed, such as sugar, wine, coffee, pimiento, cambric, calico, etc. This meant that virtually every single popular item in the colonies was taxed to be imported by Britain. In conclusion, The Sugar Act was introduced by Great Britain to enforce taxes on popular items in the colonies to make more

The frustrations amongst colonists did not stop with the Proclamation Line. In 1764 the Revenue Act, more commonly known as the Sugar Act was passed cutting the duty on molasses in half. Though the reduction in duty was favorable, the act also meant that ships carrying cargo were very closely monitored and those who breached laws regarding duty were tried in juryless admiralty courts. Following the Revenue Act was the Currency act of 1764, which prohibited colonies from producing their own currency; the reasoning was to restrict colonists from paying off debt with currency that was worth less than face value.

The taxes that followed this Proclamation are: (1) 1764 the “Sugar Act” was passed which was an attempt from the British to actually collect the tax on molasses. Originally it was a tax of 6 pence per gallon that was impossible to collect. By the British reducing this to 3 pence per gallon they thought this tax would be easier to collect. (2) 1765 “Quartering Act” This act stated that during

Between 1763 and 1765, the crown imposed a number of acts on the American colonist designed to recoup funds lost during the French and Indian War. One of the first acts imposed was the Sugar Act. This act was a modified version of a previous act the British had imposed in 1733 called the Sugar and Molasses act, which was about to expire. Under the old act, colonial merchants had been required to pay a tax of six pence per gallon on any importation of foreign molasses. The colonist undercut the market by instead buying molasses from the French West Indies instead of the British West Indies. The colonist used the molasses purchased cheaper from the French to produce rum. Because of this practice, Lord Grenville, the first lord of the Treasury increased the presence of British naval ships and instructed them to become more stringent in their enforcement of customs.

In this forum I will be playing the part of a patriot tobacco farmer from Maryland. The taxes that are being brought down from England are hard on me and my fellow farmers. In 1964 the British imposed a Sugar Act, which amended the existing 1733 Molasses Act, “The act increased the duty of molasses from 2d to 3d of gallon of imported molasses. It enforced the Navigation Acts by prohibiting vessels to directly transport cargo to the colonies. Vessels had to unload its cargo in Britain, pay duties and reload its cargo before sailing to the colonies”. (Hutagalung) I do not understand why I must pay this tax I am a tobacco farmer, I do not farm sugar cane. Also, why must England tax us we are in a completely different continent now? They should