The Sugar Act, also known as The American Revenue Act, was passed by Great Britain’s Parliament on April 5, 1764. The Sugar Act involved taxing imported items like sugar, molasse, wine, coffee, etc. that were delivered to the colonies. The Sugar Act basically replaced the Molasse Act (1763), which was just having to pay taxes when buying molasse, but just added more items to the “taxed list”. Parliament used the tax money to help pay the debt of the French and Indian War. The act caused many financial problems with the lower class colonists and even led some to protest the act. About 50 merchants decided to join up to boycotted certain taxed items and grow/make the items themselves. The following year it was eventually repealed due to the colonist’s…
parliament thought that they had the right to tax the American colonies. “The Sugar Act was an extension of the Molasses Act (1733), which was set to expire in 1763”. In 1756-1763 Great Britain had a 7 year war with France and after the war ended Great Britain had high war debts so they started taxing the colonies. The American colonies got upset about the extremely high taxes so they revolted against Great Britain.…
After the French and Indian War King George III went into great debt funding the war. In order to pay back his debts the British Parliament passed a series of laws and taxes these were called Acts. The first acts was known as the Sugar act. This Act taxed sugar and molasses imported to the colonies. This mainly affected colonist who sold rum because they needed the sugar to make the rum.…
After the French and Indian War, the British ministry sent out new taxes on the American colonies to pay off the debt. Britain’s debt soared from $75 million to $133 million in 1763 consuming 60% of the national budget. The only solution to this problem was the raise the taxes, and that’s just what prime minster Lord Bute did beginning with England. Of course there were many complaints with this leading to his decision to only tax the poor and middle classes. The question was still hanging in the air for them, should they tax the American colonists? A new prime minister came into play in 1763. British taxpayers were paying five times as much taxes as the people in America were and Britain was still in debt. He finally decided that the new revenue would have to come from the colonies. In the British Order in Council of 1763 it claims to read, “We, the commissioners of your majesty’s treasury beg leave humbly to represent to you and your majesty that having taken into consideration the present state of the duties of the customs imposed on your majesty’s subjects in America and the West indies, we find that the revenue arising therefrom is very small and inconsiderable …. And is not yet sufficient to defray a fourth part of the expense necessary for collecting it.” He made a new two part plan, The Currency Act of 1764, which extended the ban on paper money as legal tender, and the Sugar Act of…
April 5,1764 - The Sugar Act is passed by the English Parliament to offset the war debt brought on by the French and Indian War and to help pay for the expenses of running the colonies and newly acquired territories. This act doubles the duties to imported sugar, textiles, coffee, and other items. This is more work for the colonies, for a war that they didn’t want to happen.…
The French and Indian War put the British crown in debt. In order to increase revenues for the costs of defending the expanding British Empire, Britain taxed the colonies. It imposed the Sugar Act in 1764, and, one year later, it added the Stamp Act. Colonists protested the added taxes. The Stamp Act was repealed.…
Other laws that they impose on the colonies included taxes. Since the French and Indian war had put England in a lot of debt, they decided to raise the taxes. Then In 1764, England passed the Sugar Act, which was used to raise money from the colonies. Moreover, "The Stamp Act passed by England in 1765, placed taxes on everyday items such as newspapers, legal documents, and even playing cards" (Divine 135). Furthermore, England did not even consider the thoughts of the Americans when they tried to have soldiers enforce British taxes and acts. The colonists felt that they were treated unfairly so they called for a meeting to protest the tax. So, representatives from nine out of the thirteen colonies came to this meeting. "The colonists…
In 1764 England passed the first series of taxes on the colonist, known as the Sugar Act and the Currency Act. As a result it would be the beginning of colonial opposition against the crown. These Acts were a result of England’s debt after the Seven Year war and they saw the colonies as a source of revenue. When England implemented the Sugar Act it actually cut taxes on English goods, and in so doing it thought it would reduce smuggling from the French West Indies, but it had the opposite effect. The tax also hit during an economic recession which caused colonist to reduce their buying in general.…
The French and Indian war led to England’s greatly expanded territorial claims in the New World and due to the large expansion came a abundantly large debt crisis that Britain had to deal with. The war had literally drained the British treasury. Britain became very bitter and angry at the American colonists for making very few financial contributions to a struggled waged mainly for American benefit. Britain particularly disliked that some colonial merchants were selling food and other related goods to the French in the West Indies for the duration of the war. The English’s general leaders leaned towards a reconstruction of the empire due to the previous actions following the…
In 1764, a year after the French and Indian war, the Sugar act was passed. This act forced the colonist to pay a 3¢ tax on sugar, coffee, indigo, and certain kinds of wine. Taxes were raised without the colonist having a say, and this is the moment they wanted to have a say so in how much they were being taxed.…
The Sugar Act in 1764 increased duties on imported sugar and other items such as textiles, coffee, wines and indigo (dyes). It doubles the obligation to store foreign goods from England into the colonies and also prohibits imports of foreign rum and French wines. The colonists disliked this law because they had to pay double for foreign goods. They showed their dislike by mailing 50 letters to Parliament, eventually getting the law changed.…
2. The Stamp Act was a tax imposesd on all official documents on things such as newspapers, wills, court documents, etc. This opposed opposition from the colonists because many of the businesses used legal documents and relied heavily on official documents on which now they would be taxed. The Sugar Act lowered the duty on French molasses and it also made it so that shippers had to obey the law and raised the penalties for spending. The colonists were opposed because they believed "the British supervision appeared to be a disturbing intrusion into the long colonial practice of centering taxation powers in colonial assemblies composed of elected represenatives"(pg154).…
The Sugar Act taxed all common goods such as sugar, lumber, animal skins, and whale bone. The colonists responded in a mild protest, but it was not a huge issue for most. The next act past was the Stamp Act. The stamp act highly taxed stamps and made it so every paper had to have a stamp. The colonist were very angry about this act so they rioted until the act was repealed. The next revolutionary act was the Townshend Acts. This taxed common goods such as paper, tea, paint, and glass. The colonists responded to this act by boycotting British goods. Eventually British government repealed all the taxes except for the one on tea. This was not good enough for the colonist, they wanted all the taxes destroyed. They acted on this by going out in the middle of the night and throwing in 342 crates of tea into the Boston Harbor. As a punishment British government passed the Intolerable acts. There was four laws included in this act, the Boston Port Act, Massachusetts Government Act, Administration of Justice Act, and the Quartering Act. In the Boston Port Act the Boston Port was closed until the people of Boston had payed for it all. This was very significant because that port was used to import food, the citizens would starve without it. The Massachusetts Government Act stated that all town meetings or…
After fighting in the French and Indian war, England was in a major debt. England was desperate to climb out of the debt and sought parliament for help. Parliament then decided to created a few acts in order to help England find a way out of debt. They created the Sugar Act in 1763 . This act imposed taxes on sugar imported into the colonies; it also included some wines, coffee and in regulated the exports of lumber and iron.…
Since Britain was in debt after the French and Indian War, they needed money, and an easy way to get the money was by taxing the colonists. The first tax was the Sugar Act that was passed by Parliament in 1764. This tax ensured that any colonist who bought imported molasses or sugar had to pay a tax. This was the first act that was passed particularly to profit from the colonies instead of their usual attempts to balance the trade of the colonies. The colonists weren’t happy with the tax, so they boycotted all goods that had extra expenses. Britain then decided to issue the Stamp Act of 1765 when they realized that the Sugar Act was not helpful.…