so did the Sugar Act raise or lower the tax on sugar it lowered it but it enforced it for the first time so no more benign neglect so even though it lowers the tax because it's enforcing It For the First Time colonists see it as an increase Britain also passes the Currency Act of 1764. now some pelonies had been printing their own money this Law requires colonies to only use British currency which is inflated so this is a little difficult to understand but just imagine that I borrow twenty dollars from you and I'm gonna pay you back that twenty dollars in like two weeks but in that two weeks time the US government decides there's too much paper money in circulation so they take some of those 20 bills out of circulation now I can pay you back that same twenty dollar bill but it's now worth a little more because there's fewer of them in circulation right so the British currency is inflated that's actually worth a little more than what the colonial currency had been so if you had borrowed in colonial currency and now you're having to pay back in British currency you're paying more creditors can also demand payment in specie which is gold or silver and this is the same idea but it would really hurt colonists who owe debts because the gold or silver is always going to be worth a little more than the paper value of it so colonists became concerned the balance of trade would shift too far against the colonies the British government left 10 000 troops in British North America but American colonists had a great distrust of troops during peace time we call this a standing army and at the time they weren't real thrilled with the idea even worse the Quartering Act of 1765 required Colonial legislatures to provide supplies and quarters that is lodging or housing in public buildings for troops stationed in the colonies but even with all of these troops Britain could not enforce the Proclamation line of 1763 they try but that's just miles and miles and miles of border and they just can't enforce it So within a few years the boundary has to be adjusted and supervision of native trade returned to individual colonies as well so there you have it what were the causes and results of the French and Indian War why did the British government issue the Proclamation line of 1763 and why didn't colonists obey it and the Sugar Act increase or decrease taxes and how was it perceived if you've got all that hit the next button at the bottom of the page and go take your note check quiz