The Sugar Act.

On 1764 The Sugar Act is passed by the English Parliament to offset the war debt brought on by the French and Indian War and to help pay for the expenses of running the colonies and newly acquired territories. This act increases the duties on imported sugar and other items such as textiles, coffee, wines and indigo dye. It doubles the duties on foreign goods reshipped from England to the colonies and also forbids the import of foreign rum and French wines. Under The Sugar Act colonial merchants had been recquired to pay a tax of six pence per gallon on the importation of foreign molasses.