Tuesday, November 16, 2010

1763 & 1764

1763
  • Parliament passed the Sugar and Molasses Act.
  • Colonists would be forced to pay a tax of 6 pence per gallon of foreign molasses.  
1764
  • Parliament passed the Currency Act
  • It banned the use of paper money in all the colonies. 
  • The first attempt was the Sugar Act to extract more money.

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