Question

What was the Sugar Act of 1974?

Answer 1

The Sugar Act reduced the rate of tax on molasses from six pence to three pence per gallon, while Grenville took measures that the duty be strictly enforced.

Answer 2

In U.S. colonial history, the Sugar Act, also known as the Plantation Act or Tax Act, (1764), British legislation aimed at ending the smuggling of sugar and molasses from the French and Dutch West Indies and having expanded taxes to finance the expanded British Empire obligations after the French and Indian