The Sugar Act 1764 or Sugar Act 1763, also known as the American Revenue Act 1764 or the American Duties Act, was a revenue-raising act passed by the...

to the Sugar Act, but it came to be a major objection to the Stamp Act the following year. Parliament announced in April 1764 when the Sugar Act was passed...

the French West Indies. The Act greatly affected the significant colonial molasses trade. Merchants purchased raw sugar (often in its liquid form, molasses)...

Stamp Act that resembled Adams's arguments against the Sugar Act. Adams argued that the Stamp Act was unconstitutional; he also believed that it would hurt...

The sugar industry subsumes the production, processing and marketing of sugars (mostly sucrose and fructose). Globally, about 80% of sugar is extracted...

ignored the laws. The tax on sugar, cloth, and coffee. These were non-British exports. The Boston Tea Party was an act of protest by the American colonists...

The Tea Act 1773 (13 Geo. 3. c. 44) was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain. The principal objective was to reduce the massive amount of tea held...

resistance to parliamentary authority that had begun with the Sugar Act 1764. A fifth act, the Quebec Act, enlarged the boundaries of what was then the Province...

accompanied the repeal of the Stamp Act 1765 and the amendment of the Sugar Act. Parliament repealed the Stamp Act because boycotts were hurting British...

enforcement was provided until the 1760s. Stricter enforcement under the Sugar Act 1764 became one source of resentment among merchants in the American colonies...