<P> In August 1764 fifty Boston merchants agreed to stop purchasing British luxury imports, and in both Boston and New York City there were movements to increase colonial manufacturing . There were sporadic outbreaks of violence, most notably in Rhode Island . Overall, however, there was not an immediate high level of protest over the Sugar Act in either New England or the rest of the colonies . That would begin in the later part of the next year when the Stamp Act 1765 was passed . </P> <P> The Sugar Act was repealed in 1766 and replaced with the Revenue Act 1766, which reduced the tax to one penny per gallon on molasses imports, British or foreign . This occurred around the same time that the Stamp Act 1765 was repealed . </P>

The sugar act placed a tax on what items