13 сент. 2024 г. · Sugar Act, (1764), in U.S. colonial history, British legislation aimed at ending the smuggling trade in sugar and molasses from the French ...

Sugar Act 1763, also known as the American Revenue Act 1764 or the American Duties Act, was a revenue-raising act passed by the Parliament of Great Britain on ...

The Sugar Act served as a revenue raising act, passed by Great Britain to tax sugar and other goods to pay for the Seven Years War.

9 янв. 2024 г. · The Sugar Act also taxed numerous foreign products, including wine, coffee, and textiles, and banned the direct shipment of several important ...

The Sugar Act was aimed at ending the smuggling trade in sugar and molasses from the French and Dutch West Indies. It was also meant to provide increased income ...

The Sugar Act reduced the rate of tax on molasses from six pence to three pence per gallon, while Grenville took measures that the duty be strictly enforced.

The colonies have already been mired in a post-war depression. The Sugar Act worsens their trade balance just as Grenville and Parliament throw another punch.

This measure was called the American Revenue Act of 1764, or the Sugar Act. This act would replace an earlier 1733 tax on sugar and molasses. Both sugar and ...

24 окт. 2023 г. · The Sugar Act was a tax imposed by the Parliament of Great Britain on molasses and sugar in the American colonies. It led to fierce protests ...

The Sugar Act of 1764 was a law passed by the British parliament on the Thirteen Colonies. The act imposed stricter trade controls and updated tax rules, ...