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The '''Molasses Act''' of 1733, (also sometimes referred to as the Sugar Act of 1733) was one of the later laws directed against colonial trade that influenced greatly the relation between the colonists and the mother country. This law was enacted by Parliament in 1733 in response to a demand made by the planters of the English sugar islands in the West Indies, who claimed that they were suffering from the practice of colonial shippers' buying their sugar and molasses in the French and other foreign islands. To remedy what appeared to the English government to be a serious evil, Parliament proposed to prohibit the colonists from buying sugar and molasses from foreign islands, thus giving the English sugar planters the monopoly of the colonial trade.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=M9zw-aTcwZ8C&pg=PA94 History of the United States]</ref>

The '''Molasses Act''' of 1733, (also sometimes referred to as the Sugar Act of 1733) was one of the later laws directed against colonial trade that influenced greatly the relation between the colonists and the mother country.

 

This law was enacted by Parliament in 1733 in response to a demand made by the planters of the English sugar islands in the West Indies, who claimed that they were suffering from the practice of colonial shippers' buying their sugar and molasses in the French and other foreign islands. The act had little to do with raising new revenue; instead it was to make importation from competitors economically impossible.<ref>[https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Americanization_of_Benjamin_Franklin/Ak1RVLZDv4gC?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA106 The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin]</ref>  Parliament proposed to prohibit the colonists from buying sugar and molasses from foreign islands, thus giving the English sugar planters the monopoly of the colonial trade.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=M9zw-aTcwZ8C&pg=PA94 History of the United States]</ref>

==Colonists Response==

==Colonists Response==