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Sugar Act of 1764 | Summary, Effects, Facts, Reaction. by Edward St. Germain. Learn about the Sugar Act of 1764. Discover how this law affected the Thirteen Colonies, and how people reacted to it.
The Sugar Act was passed by Parliament on 5 April 1764, [1] and it arrived in the colonies at a time of economic depression. A good part of the reason was that a significant portion of the colonial economy during the Seven Years' War was involved with supplying food and supplies to the British Army.
Sugar Act. April 5, 1764. The Sugar Act served as a revenue raising act, passed by Great Britain to tax sugar and other goods to pay for the Seven Years War.
Sep 1, 2020 · Published on September 01, 2020. The Sugar Act of 1764 was a law enacted by the British Parliament intended to stop the smuggling of molasses into the American colonies from the West Indies by cutting taxes on molasses.
The Sugar Act. Titled The American Revenue Act of 1764. On April 5, 1764, Parliament passed a modified version of the Sugar and Molasses Act (1733), which was about to expire. Under the Molasses Act colonial merchants had been required to pay a tax of six pence per gallon on the importation of foreign molasses.
The Plantation Act, also known as the Sugar Act, was the first of the Revenue Acts to be passed, on April 5, 1764. In the words of one historian, it brought a “new realism to the regulation of foreign trade in America.”
The Sugar Act was a piece of British legislation passed in April 1764. It was passed specifically to increase revenue collected from the American colonies, in order to fund their defence and regulation. It aimed to do this by adjusting customs duties on items imported by Americans and strengthening the means by which they were collected.
