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một doanh nhân đường sắt, như Bộ trưởng đến Mexico và hướng dẫn ông để thương lượng mua của khu vực tranh chấp. Nhiệm vụ của Gadsden cũng bao gồm đàm phán việc mua thấp hơn California, nhưng cơ quan mài mòn nhân cách bị xúc phạm của ông Mexico đến một mức độ của nước chủ tịch, Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, từ chối xem xét việc bán thêm lãnh thổ. Gadsden | 270 Supply-Side Economics of sixpence per gallon changing the duty to a reduced threepence in an attempt to curb smuggling of French molasses from the Caribbean and thus boost the customs revenue on British molasses. This product crucial to the thriving rum distilleries of New England had been a continuing source of friction between New England merchants and the British government and Parliament assumed that reducing the duty while strengthening customs administration would improve relations between Britain and its American colonies. Although the act also included unpopular new duties on wine coffee pimentos cambric and calico print fabric the colonies especially resented that the Sugar Act regulated the export of lumber and iron from the colonies restricting the ability of the colonies to produce anything but raw materials and to engage in trade with the French or Dutch. Increased naval patrols by the Royal Navy of the French West Indies seriously disrupted the smuggling trade and harmed the colonial economy. James Otis who linked the new taxation with the hated Quartering Act in which Parliament required the housing of British soldiers in private colonial homes led the protests in Boston. Because the Sugar Act reduced the duties on molasses Parliament kept the duties in place despite colonial protests. Opposition to the duties was one of the causes of the American Revolution. Margaret Sankey References Doerflinger Thomas. A Vigorous Spirit of Enterprise Merchants and Economic Development in Revolutionary Philadelphia. Chapel Hill University of North Carolina Press 1986. Maier Pauline. From Resistance to Revolution Colonial Radicals and the Development of American Opposition to Britain 1765-1776. New York Alfred A. Knopf 1972. See also Volume 1 American Revolution Stamp Act Stamp Act Congress. Supply-Side Economics Balance or equilibrium between volume of goods and services produced the supply side and level of demand for those goods and services the demand side .