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The Molasses Act 1733 was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain (6 Geo. 2. c. 13) that imposed a tax of six pence per gallon on imports of molasses from non-British colonies. Parliament created the act largely at the insistence of large plantation owners in the British West Indies.
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. The act specifically aimed at reserving a practical monopoly of the American sugar market to British West Indies sugarcane growers, who otherwise could not ...
The most important was the 1733 Molasses Act; routinely ignored before 1763, it had a significant economic impact since 85% of New England rum exports were manufactured from imported molasses. These measures were followed by the Sugar Act and Stamp Act , which imposed additional taxes on the colonies to pay for defending the western frontier ...
Molasses was a major trading product in the Americas, being produced by enslaved Africans on sugar plantations on European colonies. The good was a major import for the British North American colonies, which used molasses to produce rum, especially distilleries in New England.
3 Αυγ 2023 · The Molasses Act was a law passed by the British Parliament in 1733 to ensure profitable control of industry and commerce in the American Colonies. The Molasses Act of 1733 was introduced to Parliament by Robert Walpole, the first Prime Minister of Great Britain.
The Molasses Act of 1733 was a tax on imported sugar and molasses imposed by Great Britain in the Thirteen Colonies. The law targeted sugar and molasses from foreign sources, such as the French West Indies.
24 Ιαν 2019 · The Molasses Act of 1733 levied a duty of six pence per gallon on foreign molasses imported into British colonies in North America. The duty was not intended to raise revenue, but to be a prohibition against the importation of molasses from foreign sugar plantations.
