There
were two major changes in British
policies that led to the Revolutionary War. One change was the
British
decision to begin to enforce some of the trade policies that they had generally
ignored.
The British often looked the other way when the colonists smuggled
items into the colonies. They
also looked the other way when the colonists
used the ships of other countries instead of using
British ships. When the
British passed the Sugar Act, it lowered the tax on molasses. This
eventually
reduced colonial trade with the French West Indies and some other places, harming
the
economy of the colonies. The British navy began to enforce the Sugar Act
much more closely than
they had...
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