what are 10 facts about the sugar act?

answers1: Sugar Act Facts
answers2: Passed on September 17, 1764, the Sugar Act was an Act of
the Parliament of Great Britain, a revision to the earlier Sugar and
Molasses Act of 1733, which had imposed a tax of sixpence per gallon
on molasses in order to make English products cheaper than those from
the French West Indies. Colonists had largely evaded the earlier tax
by bribing local officials. The Sugar Act, passed under the leadership
of British Prime Minister Lord George Grenville, reduced the tax from
sixpence to threepence but provided for the tax to be strictly
enforced and expanded its scope to include wine, cloth, Coffee,
cambric, pimento, and Printed calico and other goods. <br>
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Effect on the colonies: <br>
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The Sugar Act was one of three acts forced by Gren poser to collect
tax for the money used in the French and Indian war. This caused local
production to increase in the colonies, but colonists did not view it
as taxation without representation until 1765, and it was one of the
most minor causes of the American Revolution.The Act was abolished due
to the economic pressure the protest had on British economy. <br>
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This Act also allowed officers to seize goods from smugglers without
going to court. The Sugar Act and the new laws to control smuggling
angered the colonists. The colonists boycotted the taxed goods. <br>
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The chief power behind the protests to the Sugar Act was Samuel Adams.
Claiming the Act to be against the British constitution, natural law,
and the Massachusetts charter and therefore, void, he failed to incite
either the other colonies or the bulk of Massachusetts citizens to
protest. Switching tactics to emotional appeals and mongering fear
that future, equally unrepresented, acts would affect the broader
populace (especially land owners), Adams and his supporters were able
to get some moderate groundswell of protestation. This background
level of dissent, largely engineered by Adams, helped to foment the
more widespread resistance to the Stamp Act 1765.
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what are 10 facts about the sugar act? <br>
the sugar act was passed in 1764
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