Molasses Act, (1733), in American colonial history, a British law that imposed a tax on molasses, sugar, and rum imported from non-British foreign colonies into the North American colonies.
um true and false the americans fought for indapendinc because they wanted there taxes to be represented in parlament and they did fight for slavery to free blacks it was inscribed on the declination of Independence but was removed for fear of the south wouldn't vote for it in but every were it was legal until the north freed them and no longer allowed blacks to be slaves
