Which details do the authors include to support the
claim in this passage? Select three options.
an explanation of the results of the Seven Years' War
an explanation of how the Molasses Act benefited
colonists
Read the passage from Sugar Changed the World.
In 1733, Parliament ruled that an extra six cents must
be added to the price of every gallon of molasses that
did not come from an English source. If the colonists
actually followed the rules of the Molasses Act, it would
have terrible consequences. Molasses from French
islands would now be too expensive-merchants could
never make a profit. So they would have to turn to the
English, who would surely raise their prices. This one
law could cripple the entire North American trade with
the sugar islands—if, that is, the colonists or the French
followed the rules. But of course they did just the
opposite
The Molasses Act accomplished nothing except to
make Americans better smugglers. Yet the act was
renewed again and again—until the crucial year of
1763. Just as the Molasses Act was due to expire,
England completed its victory over France in the global
an explanation of what was being taxed and how
much it cost
an explanation of why the Americans smuggled
molasses
an explanation of why the British imposed the Sugar
Act