The Molasses Act (1733)
a. aimed to decrease trade between the colonies and the French West Indies.
b. was flaunted with impunity by the colonists.
c. placed a high tariff on colonial imports of foreign sugar, molasses and rum.
d. if enforced would have disrupted one of the major colonial trades.
e. All of the above.
Question 2
Between 1891 and 1896,
a. both external and internal gold drains plagued the U.S. Treasury.
b. Americans rushed to exchange notes for gold.
c. Treasury reserves of gold dipped below the minimum reserve of 100 million.
d. increases in commodity exports ultimately bolstered the gold reserves of the Treasury.
e. All of the above.
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