Sugar Act: Influences Of The American Revolution

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Midterm- Sugar Act The Sugar Act was one of the influences that started the American revolution but before the act there was the Molasses Act. It all started with the Molasses Act of 1733 it was a high tax on molasses but it was never collected because the colonies ignored it and the also smuggled the molasses to bypass being taxed. So Britain decided to make the Sugar Act. They thought by decreasing the tax people might actually pay. They main reason Britain created the sugar act was because the need money because of the French and Indian war to pay war debt.
The sugar act was an act passed by the English parliament to impose taxes on sugar (mainly molasses but they also taxed foreign wines, coffees, indigo, sugar, etc) and was passed in …show more content…

In the Revenue Act of 1764 it sated “That all penalties and forfeitures herein before mentioned, which shall be incurred in Great Britain, shall and may be prosecuted, sued for, and recovered” this shows that they were going to send you to Britain if they founded you smuggling so you could be prosecuted and sent to trial there. (Sugar Act 1764)
The key ingredient that the British taxed was molasses because that’s what people used to make rum. The molasses was one of the ingredients to be taxed the most because it was used to make rum essentially a tax on alcohol. Britain also taxed the colonies on other imports which made the colonies go into a depression. There were also taxes on exports which made the colonies economy go down because it would make the prices of those items go up and cause a depression if the colonies wouldn’t be getting any money from other …show more content…

I can also infer that the colonies were in economic depression because before the sugar act they had little money and the England decided to enforce the tax so that moved the colonies into a greater economic depression. They were getting taxed on the things that where the most used. The colonist didn’t want to pay these taxes and some people wanted the colonies to be separated from England. This also lead the colonies into the American revolution considering that the stamp act would pass a year after the sugar

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