Examples of molasses in the following topics:
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- The deeply unpopular Molasses Act was the first of the Sugar Acts.
- New England ports especially suffered economic losses from the Sugar Act, as the stricter enforcement made smuggling molasses more dangerous and risky.
- They also argued that their profit margin on rum was too small to support a tax on molasses.
- With supply of molasses well exceeding demand, the islands prospered with their reduced expenses while New England ports saw revenue from their rum exports decrease.
- The Sugar Act was repealed in 1766 and replaced with the Revenue Act of 1766, which reduced the tax to one penny per gallon on molasses imports, British or foreign.
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- The earlier Molasses Act of 1733, which had imposed a tax of six pence per gallon of molasses, had never been effectively collected due to colonial resistance and evasion.
- The earlier Molasses Act of 1733 was passed by Parliament largely at the insistence of large plantation owners in the British West Indies.
- Molasses was used in New England for making rum, and the molasses trade had been growing between New England; the Middle colonies; and the French, Dutch, and Spanish West Indian possessions.
- The Molasses Act was set to expire in 1763.
- When passed by Parliament, the new Sugar Act of 1764 halved the previous tax on molasses.
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- Later laws such as the Molasses Act of 1733 (the first of the Sugar Acts) levied heavy duties on the trade of sugar from the French West Indies to the American colonies, forcing the colonists to buy the more expensive sugar from the British West Indies instead and only added fuel to the growing fire.
- On the whole, the Navigation Acts were more or less obeyed by colonists, despite their dissatisfaction, until the Molasses and Sugar Acts.
- The Molasses Act led to extensive smuggling, as no effective means of enforcement was provided until the 1750s.
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- Traders set up stores selling English manufactures such as cloth, iron utensils, and window glass, as well as West Indian products like sugar and molasses.
- After these products had been delivered to port towns such as Boston and Salem in Massachusetts, New Haven in Connecticut, and Newport and Providence in Rhode Island, merchants then exported them to the West Indies, where they were traded for molasses, sugar, gold coins, and bills of exchange (credit slips).
- They carried the West Indian products to New England factories, where the raw sugar was turned into granulated sugar and the molasses distilled into rum.
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- Traders set up stores selling English manufactures such as cloth, iron utensils, and window glass, as well as West Indian products like sugar and molasses.
- After these products had been delivered to port towns such as Boston, Salem, New Haven, Newport, and Providence, merchants then exported them to the West Indies, where they were traded for molasses, sugar, gold coins, and bills of exchange (credit slips).
- They carried the West Indian products to New England factories where the raw sugar was turned into granulated sugar and the molasses distilled into rum.
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- The sugar source is usually an inexpensive solution like molasses or corn steep liquor.
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- Many New Englanders took part in a sophisticated system of trade in which they exported products to the West Indies, where they were traded for molasses, sugar, gold coins, and bills of exchange (credit slips).
- They carried the West Indian products to New England factories where the raw sugar was turned into granulated sugar and the molasses distilled into rum.
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- The Sugar Act of 1764 reduced the taxes imposed by the Molasses Act, but at the same time strengthened the collection of the tax.
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- The Sugar Act established a tax of six pence per gallon of sugar or molasses imported into the colonies, and by 1750, the Parliament had begun to ban, restrict, or tax several more products.
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- The Sugar Act established a tax of six pence per gallon of sugar or molasses imported into the colonies.