2 gen 1764 anni - Sugar, Currency Acts

Descrizione:

SUGAR ACT
- taxes on sugar and molasses
- bad for American whiskey business
- used to crackdown on smuggling
- FIRST EXPLICIT REVENUE TAX

CURRENCY ACT
- outlawed (colonial) paper money
- shortage of gold and silver on the colony meant few had means other than paper to buy
- importing more than exporting meant that Americans were always in debt --> law hurt economy further

- Americans take hesitant and uncoordinated opposition to acts