USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The sugar Act 1733, which had forced a duty of sixpence per gallon of molasses, had never been successfully gathered because of pioneer avoidance. By lessening the rate significantly and expanding measures to uphold the duty, the British trusted that the assessment would really be gathered.

Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -Actually a reinvigoration of the largely ineffective Molasses Act of 1733, the Sugar Act provided for strong customs enforcement of the duties on refined sugar and molasses imported into the colonies from non-British Caribbean sources.

Detailed explanation-4: -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-5: -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.