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.
exists and is an alternate of . they taxed the tea so they got mad for taxing the tea. Actually, The tea act LOWERED the price of the tea. 2 reasons that the colonists were angry was because it violated their English right, of only being taxed by their elected representatives, NOT Parliment.