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.
The colonists disliked the Townshend act because the British taxed everything (sugar, tea, paper, paint, lead, glass etc.).The colonists oposed paying taxes to Great Britain â¦ because they were not represented in the Parliament of Great Britain.5 people found this useful.he acts also added three new admiralty courts to try Americans charged with smuggling. Townshend himself died suddenly later that year. Colonists responded to the taxes with the cry no taxation without representation, with riots and the boycotting of British goods.