American importers were not paying the excessively high duty that had been placed on Sugar (molasses) by the Molasses Act of 1733. They found it cheaper to pay bribes of a penny or so per gallon, to the customs collectors. When George Grenville became Prime Minister, he had Parliament overhaul the old act with a new Sugar Act, 1764. The new act lowered the tax on sugar entering the colonies, but it also created a new system for enforcing the act, making sure that the lowered duties would be collected. In New England, where molasses was a major trade item used in making various drinks as well as a sweetener, there was immediate concern. A Boston town meeting declared that the city would boycott (not purchase) all British imports to that colony. Other New England cities, including New York, followed Boston’s lead.
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george washintonErm, actually George Washington had his own plantation, it was William wilberfrce and thomas Clarkson
What does it mean that the Sugar Act made it illegal to trade with non-british suppliers
to support there army with the money from the taxes
Charles Townshend, the English Parliament by Chancellor of Exchequer introduced the Townshend Act. It imposed duties on tea, paper, paints, lead and glass imported into colonies in 1767.
british made the colonist pay a tax on molases and sugar ,but the colonist were angered.therefore, colonist convinced all 12 colonies except one to stop buying tea from the british, leading up to the stamp act of 1765.