Sugar Act

noun

, American History.

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.

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

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

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

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

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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