RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877
THE INDIAN WARS STRUGGLE BETWEEN NATIVE AMERICANS AND SETTLERS
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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To collect money to fund the sugar farming
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To open the trade markets to gain as much money as possible
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To mock the French for losing the war
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To stop illegal trading (smuggling) among the colonies with France
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Detailed explanation-1: -Sugar Act. Parliament, desiring revenue from its North American colonies, passed the first law specifically aimed at raising colonial money for the Crown. The act increased duties on non-British goods shipped to the colonies.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Sugar Act of 1764 was a law enacted by the British Parliament intended to stop the smuggling of molasses into the American colonies from the West Indies by cutting taxes on molasses.
Detailed explanation-3: -Protests: 1764 For the most part, the Sugar Act duties were protested only as an economic burden, not as taxation. (In addition, the protests of the colonies called out as grievances the burdensome regulations of the act, and the denial of trial by jury.)
Detailed explanation-4: -The American Revenue Act of 1764, so called Sugar Act, was a law that attempted to curb the smuggling of sugar and molasses in the colonies by reducing the previous tax rate and enforcing the collection of duties.