Sugar Act
Molasses revenue law
The Sugar Act was a 1764 British law that taxed sugar and molasses imported to the American colonies.
It aimed to raise revenue and enforce trade regulations more strictly than earlier measures.
Colonial opposition to the act—arguing Parliament had no right to tax them without representation—helped spark the resistance that led to the American Revolution.
- taxationCompulsory government revenue collection
- American coloniesPre-independence British territories
- coloniesTerritories under foreign control
- British ParliamentUK's national legislature
- molassesSyrup from cane processing
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Sugar Actfree trade
Unrestricted international exchange
laissez-faire · deregulation · economic freedom · open markets
Sugar ActDeclaration of Independence
America's founding proclamation
Articles of Confederation · American independence · self-determination · free trade · home rule
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