https://padlet.com/cfleishman/14we0ggt7pml en-us 2017-10-10 02:59:55 UTC 2025-12-15 22:05:30 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.com/cfleishman/14we0ggt7pml/wish/196230660 The British set the Sugar Act in place to both increase English revenue and to end the French and Dutch trading in America.]]> 2017-10-11 21:43:31 UTC https://padlet.com/cfleishman/14we0ggt7pml/wish/196230660 https://padlet.com/cfleishman/14we0ggt7pml/wish/196231324 This act placed a tax on refined sugars and continued the molasses act of 1733.]]> 2017-10-11 21:48:08 UTC https://padlet.com/cfleishman/14we0ggt7pml/wish/196231324 https://padlet.com/cfleishman/14we0ggt7pml/wish/196232796 Although this act appeared similar to the Molasses Act, the English planned to enforce the Sugar Act, this led to many colonial protests.]]> 2017-10-11 21:59:07 UTC https://padlet.com/cfleishman/14we0ggt7pml/wish/196232796 https://padlet.com/cfleishman/14we0ggt7pml/wish/196233050 After the Sugar Act occurred, the colonists began to revolt, and which ultimately started Colonial opposition.]]> 2017-10-11 22:01:18 UTC https://padlet.com/cfleishman/14we0ggt7pml/wish/196233050 maher_a https://padlet.com/cfleishman/14we0ggt7pml/wish/196253113 "First, It is apprehended that the trade is so far from being able to bear the high duty [tax] imposed by this act on sugar and molasses that it will not bear any duty at all . . . And if an end should be put to our trade to the foreign islands, Great Britain would finally lose much more than would be gained by the duty on sugar. . . . "
-New England Chronicle, May 31 1764]]> 2017-10-12 00:57:47 UTC https://padlet.com/cfleishman/14we0ggt7pml/wish/196253113 maher_a https://padlet.com/cfleishman/14we0ggt7pml/wish/196253766 2017-10-12 01:04:19 UTC https://padlet.com/cfleishman/14we0ggt7pml/wish/196253766 maher_a https://padlet.com/cfleishman/14we0ggt7pml/wish/196254133 "That from and after the twenty ninth day of September, one thousand seven hundred and sixty four, there shall be raised, levied, collected, and paid, unto his Majesty, his heirs and successors, for and upon all white or clayed sugars of the produce or manufacture of any colony or plantation in America, not under the dominion of his Majesty, his heirs and successors"
-British Parliament 1764]]> 2017-10-12 01:07:36 UTC https://padlet.com/cfleishman/14we0ggt7pml/wish/196254133 maher_a https://padlet.com/cfleishman/14we0ggt7pml/wish/196254521 In addition to revenue and ending French and Dutch trading, the English also wanted to raise nearly 100,000 pounds to pay a portion of the military costs of the French and Indian War.]]> 2017-10-12 01:10:51 UTC https://padlet.com/cfleishman/14we0ggt7pml/wish/196254521 maher_a https://padlet.com/cfleishman/14we0ggt7pml/wish/196255611 The precursor to the Sugar Act of 1764 was the Molasses Act of 1733 which put a six pence per gallon tax on molasses but it was often evaded by the colonists who just smuggled the goods. The Sugar Act would serve as a continuation of the Molasses Act by lowering the tax slightly but enforcing it more as to prevent smuggling.]]> 2017-10-12 01:17:58 UTC https://padlet.com/cfleishman/14we0ggt7pml/wish/196255611 maher_a https://padlet.com/cfleishman/14we0ggt7pml/wish/196256388 2017-10-12 01:22:21 UTC https://padlet.com/cfleishman/14we0ggt7pml/wish/196256388 maher_a https://padlet.com/cfleishman/14we0ggt7pml/wish/196256497 Most of the protests were regarding the economic impact the Sugar Act had on the colonists, along with the issue of taxation without representation.]]> 2017-10-12 01:23:09 UTC https://padlet.com/cfleishman/14we0ggt7pml/wish/196256497