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 sugar act tried to stop.

Question

A. paying only a portion of it
B. avoiding it by smuggling molasses

Answer 1

B. avoiding it by smuggling molasses

The Sugar Act aimed to curb the practice of smuggling and to ensure that colonists paid the tax on molasses, as many were illegally importing it to avoid the higher tax that had previously been in place.