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  2. Molasses Act - Wikipedia

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    The Molasses Act 1733 (6 Geo. 2. c. 13), also known as the Trade of Sugar Colonies Act 1732, was an act of the Parliament of Great Britainthat imposed a tax of six pence per gallon on imports of molasses from non-British colonies. Parliament created the act largely at the insistence of large plantation owners in the British West Indies.

  3. Colonial molasses trade - Wikipedia

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    The Molasses Act 1733 imposed a fee of six pence per gallon on foreign molasses. [5] This act was meant to force the colonies into buying molasses from the British or stop producing rum in North America. Many, however, say that the Molasses Act was put in place to destroy New England’s rum industry.

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    Republican presidential nominee former U.S. President Donald Trump speaks at a Turning Point PAC campaign rally at the Gas South Arena on October 23, 2024 in Duluth, Georgia.

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    On Friday, we published an article about how former President Donald Trump’s campaign has made a habit of deceptively using quotations in television ads attacking Vice President Kamala Harris.

  6. Navigation Acts - Wikipedia

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    The Molasses Act was the first of the Sugar Acts. The Act was set to expire in 1763, but in 1764 it was renewed as the Sugar Act, ...

  7. List of United States political catchphrases - Wikipedia

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    "Covfefe", an apparent typo used by President Donald Trump in 2017 in a Twitter post which read "Despite the constant negative press covfefe". The phrase became an internet meme, and a bill named the COVFEFE Act, meant to preserve social media posts made by the president, was later introduced in the House of Representatives. [54]

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    A new television ad from former President Donald Trump’s campaign piles deception upon deception to attack Vice President Kamala Harris on immigration.The ad uses an edited quote to attack ...

  9. American Revolution - Wikipedia

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    Colonial reactions to these policies were mixed. The Molasses Act 1733 placed a duty of six pence per gallon upon foreign molasses imported into the colonies. This act was particularly egregious to the New England colonists, who protested it as taxation without representation. The act increased the smuggling of foreign molasses, and the British ...