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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
1 Οκτ 2024 · Molasses Act (1733) The Molasses Act of 1733 was a piece of British legislation that imposed high import duties on molasses, rum, and sugar imported into the American colonies from non-British Caribbean sources, primarily the French West Indies.
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.
28 Ιαν 2019 · As described below, the Navigation Acts of 1651 would be re-instituted and subsequently strengthened in 1660, 1663, 1673, 1696, and 1733 with the Molasses Act (otherwise known as the Revenue Act of 1733). By 1700, the English merchant fleet rivaled the size of its Dutch competitors.
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.
Students will understand through role playing how the British had control over the New Englanders using certain taxes. While passed in 1733, the Molasses Act was not vigorously enforced by the English government and was routinely violated by New England shippers.
The first step was the replacement of the Molasses Act of 1733, which placed a prohibitive duty, or tax, on the import of rum and molasses from non-English areas, with the Sugar Act of 1764.
