Sugar Act

noun

, American History.

1. a law passed by the British Parliament in 1764 raising duties on foreign refined sugar imported by the colonies so as to give British sugar growers in the West Indies a monopoly on the colonial market.

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Stringent regulations were provided for the enforcement of the Sugar Act and other navigation laws.

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The strict terms of the Sugar Act were strengthened by administrative measures.

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The question proposed to Dr. Franklin alludes to this sugar act in 1763.

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The Sugar Act, for example, taken by itself, was perhaps the most grievous of all.

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It was he who had urged the reënactment of the Sugar Act in 1763, and he now saw opportunity to put through a more radical policy.

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