Equal Protection and Race........................................................................................................ 1839. Overview..............................................................................................................................
Sugar cane plantations in the colonies of the West Indies. The older Sugar and Molasses tax charged the customer a duty of 6 pence per gallon of molasses. The bribe to customs officials per gallon of smuggled molasses was 1.5p. The new Sugar Act lowered the duty to 3p per gallon.
2015-11-11T16:58:42-05:00. The main reason why the colonists reacted so strongly against the tea act, which only imposed a small tax and actually lowered the price of tea, is because they felt that the decision was out of their hands, since they had no representation in British Parliament. They simply wanted to have some say in the taxation process.