The correct response is:
avoiding it by smuggling molasses.
The Sugar Act aimed to curb the smuggling of molasses by lowering the tax but enforcing it more strictly.
The Sugar Act was a new tax on molasses, but it actually lowered an earlier tax. What were the colonists doing in response to the earlier tax that the Sugar Act tried to stop?
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Responses
declaring independence from Britain
declaring independence from Britain
paying only a portion of it
paying only a portion of it
holding protests and riots
holding protests and riots
avoiding it by smuggling molasses
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