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Similarly, when parliament passed the Sugar Act and the Currency Act in 1764, colonialists viewed the British with contempt. The Sugar Act included tariffs on most luxury goods that were imported from Great Britain and was not limited to sugar alone; the act was devised as a legitimate means to collect taxes from the colonies, which demonstrated a successful agricultural industry. Debt incurred by the wars on both sides of the Atlantic had drained the British budget significantly enough to warrant domestic taxes in England. Imposing a tariff on goods ranging from textiles to wine was therefore a natural attempt to raise more money in the interest of offsetting national debt.
The Crown asserted its right to impose the tariffs because of the role the colonies played in the French and Indian War but the colonialists rejected the argument, instead pointing out that only the British supported the war effort. Many colonialists in fact offered no quarter to British troops stationed there during the war. The British Crown viewed the colonialists' trading with the French colonies...
Prohibiting the issuance of legal tender currency in the colonies, the Currency Act ensured that the colonies would remain beholden to the Crown. Collectively leading to cries of "no taxation without representation," the colonialists refused to pay the tariffs and revolted in a series of often bloody conflicts like the Boston Massacre. The Sons of Liberty, a group that had initially avowed loyalty to the Crown while protesting the Sugar and Currency Acts, adopted a more radical platform that would foment the Revolutionary War.
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Prelude to Revolution." American Revolution. Retrieved Sept 26, 2006 at http://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/revolution/rev-prel.htm
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