Parliament Taxes the Colonies (Sugar Act, Stamp Act, Townshend Acts)

Mr. Richey explains Parliament's taxes on the American colonies (Sugar Act, Stamp Act, Townshend Acts), and the Boston Massacre.

Timestamps:

05:31 - Proclamation of 1763
06:33 - Sugar Act
08:42 - Stamp Act
12:55 - Townshend Acts
13:51 - Boston Massacre

This content is aligned with South Carolina standards in US History (USHC 1.2) for those students preparing for the US History EOC.

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[armoredninja]

The sugar act was a sign of long history cronyism between the parliament and British Caribbean sugarcane planters. They weren’t making much profit, in fact were running heavy losses selling molasses and unrefined sugar. The French, the Spanish and the Dutch Caribbean colonies produced better quality and cheaper sugarcane. The British planters, therefore, resented the mainland British colonists buying from those colonies instead of them. They lobbied in the parliament to stop this free trade between the foreign colonies and the mainland British colonists. The parliament, hence, came up with the molasses act of 1733. It was for making colonial traders purchase from British islands rather than the foreign ones, and collect some taxes from the transactions made. This didn’t bring in much revenue though and so was replaced by sugar act of 1764 which basically halved the taxes on purchases made from the British Caribbean islands but increased taxes on foreign sugar and molasses bought from the French, the Dutch and Spanish sugar island colonies. The mainlanders had never wanted to buy from the British sugar islands because of inferior quality and the fact that the sugar was expensive there compared to elsewhere. The rum distillers and sugar refiners in the 13 colonies, wouldn’t make any profit from this and so wouldn’t receive much for their rum and refined sugar in the international market, where they earned in gold and silver coins.

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