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To help pay British debts from the French and Indian War, Parliament placed a tax on sugar, molasses, and other products shipped to the colonies. The taxes made these products more expensive.

Colonists saw the act as a threat to their political rights. Colonists argued that Parliament did not have the right to tax the colonists and that no tax should be created without their consent.

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