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30 Δεκ 2021 · On August 5, 1764, Britain passed the Sugar Act, which extended the Molasses Act of 1733. The purpose of the Sugar Act, which was designed by Prime Minister George Grenville, was to raise revenue through the collection of customs duties on shipments of specific goods and to encourage American merchants to purchase sugar and molasses from ...
22 Αυγ 2024 · The Sugar Act definition is a British law passed by Parliament in 1764 to make money from the American Colonies to help pay for the British Army in North America. Money was raised by taxing goods and enforcing the Navigation Acts.
24 Οκτ 2023 · The Sugar Act of 1764, also known as the American Revenue Act, was legislation passed by the Parliament of Great Britain on 5 April 1764 to crack down on molasses smuggling in the American colonies and to raise revenue to pay for the colonies' defense.
April 5, 1764. The Sugar Act served as a revenue raising act, passed by Great Britain to tax sugar and other goods to pay for the Seven Years War. An act for granting certain duties in the British colonies and plantations in America; for continuing, amending, and making perpetual, an act passed in the sixth year of the reign of his late majesty ...
4 ημέρες πριν · VI. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That in lieu and instead of the rate and duty imposed by the said act upon melasses and syrups, there shall, from and after the said twenty ninth day of Septemberone thousand seven hundred and sixty four, be raised, levied, collected, and paid, unto his Majesty, his heirs and successors ...
13 Σεπ 2024 · Sugar Act, in U.S. colonial history, British legislation (1764) aimed at ending the smuggling trade in sugar and molasses from the French and Dutch West Indies and at providing increased revenues to fund enlarged British Empire responsibilities following the French and Indian War.
The Sugar Act was a piece of British legislation passed in April 1764. It was passed specifically to increase revenue collected from the American colonies, in order to fund their defence and regulation. It aimed to do this by adjusting customs duties on items imported by Americans and strengthening the means by which they were collected.
