THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION 1775 1783
AMERICAN REVOLUTION SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC IMPACT
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The ____ Act lowered tax on sugar, yet allowed British officers to seize, or take, smuggles goods without a trail.
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Duties
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Sugar
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Townshend
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Stamp
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Enacted on April 5, 1764, to take effect on September 29, the new Sugar Act cut the duty on foreign molasses from 6 to 3 pence per gallon, retained a high duty on foreign refined sugar, and prohibited the importation of all foreign rum.
Detailed explanation-2: -Molasses Act, (1733), in American colonial history, a British law that imposed a tax on molasses, sugar, and rum imported from non-British foreign colonies into the North American colonies.
Detailed explanation-3: -It was passed by Parliament on April 5, 1764, in order to: Extend the Molasses Act of 1733, which was initially passed for the benefit of the owners of sugar cane plantations in the British West Indies.
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