Question

To help pay war costs, Parliament passed the 1764 ____ Act sought to ensure payment of an import tax on a key commodity.

a. Rum

b. Tea

c. Sugar

d. Coffee

Answer 1

c. Sugar

To American colonist, who had to come to expect minimal taxation, even a modest assessment felt burdensome. So when Parliament, in the 1764 Sugar Act, sought to shore up an import tax on West Indian molasses that the colonist had ignored or circumvented for decades, a firestorm of protest erupted. British attempts to raise revenue from American colonist plot a course of deep political conflict.