16h 49min, jan 1, 1764 y - 1764 Sugar Act: Taxed sugar which resulted in higher prices on rum, which colonists feared would price them out of the markets. It also listed specific goods, such as lumber, that could only be exported to Britain now. This would have a devastating economic impact, since it came at the time of an economic depression. -Defeat for the colonists
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