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-It was a British law that imposed a tax on molasses, sugar, and rum imported from non-British foreign colonies into the North American colonies.
-The American colonists protested the act, claiming that the British West Indies alone could not produce enough molasses to meet the colonies' needs.
-The molasses act was changed to the sugar act -
-The sugar act was a way for British Parliament to get money and was the Molasses Act, but it cut down from six pence to three pence.
-The colonies protested the sugar act
-THey instead imposed the stamp act -
-This act made people house soldiers in their houses or Barracks
-The colonies evaded and disregarded this act
-Parliament suspended New York’s governor and legislature in 1767 and 1769 however, it was never carried out because the British parliament soon agreed to contribute money toward the quartering of troops. -
-The Stamp Act was a direct tax imposed by the British Parliament on the colonies of British America. This act required that many printed materials in the colonies be on stamped paper produced in London, carrying an embossed revenue stamp.
-The colonies boycotted British goods, held riots, and attacked tax collectors
-Parliament rejected what the colonists had to say -
-The Townshend Acts were a series of laws passed beginning in 1767, by the Parliament of Great Britain, relating to the British colonies in North America.
-Along with boycotts, two colonial movements, the Daughters of Liberty and the nonconsumption agreements, were created in response to British taxation.
-The British sent troops to America to enforce the unpopular new laws