Equal Protection and Race........................................................................................................ 1839. Overview..............................................................................................................................
Sugar cane plantations in the colonies of the West Indies. The older Sugar and Molasses tax charged the customer a duty of 6 pence per gallon of molasses. The bribe to customs officials per gallon of smuggled molasses was 1.5p. The new Sugar Act lowered the duty to 3p per gallon.
Sugar Act: 21: 904587153: Why did the british parliament pass the stamp act: to raise money to support new military forced needed for colonial defense: 22: 904587154: Passage of the sugar Act and the Stamp Act convinved many colonist that _____ the british were trying to take away their historic liberty: 23: 904587155