Download or read book The Sugar ACT and the American Revolution written by Ken Shumate and published by Journal of the American Revolu. This book was released on 2022-11-18 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sugar Act and the American Revolutionis the only book-length treatment of the first great challenge of the revolutionary era. The first act of Parliament to levy direct taxation on the colonies, the Sugar Act defined a new colonial policy and prompted a decade of protest that ended in the American Revolution. Shumate describes in detail the curious basis for the passage of the initial Sugar Act in 1733 (Molasses Act), the story behind the dramatic revision to that act in 1764--designed both for revenue and to revamp the laws of trade so as to better establish the connection between Great Britain and the colonies--and the act of 1766 that transformed the Sugar Act into an explicit act of taxation.