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Sugar Act.
The popular name of an act of the British Parliament, officially
known as the molasses act. In 1733 the British government laid a
prohibitive duty on all sugar and molasses imported into North
America from the islands of France, for the purpose of compelling
the people of New England particularly to purchase their sugar and
molasses from the planters in the English West Indies. In 1763, when
Lord Grenville became prime minister, he introduced into Parliament
two measures of vast importance to the American colonists. The first
was the revival of the old molasses act; the second was the
notorious STAMP ACT. The immediate
effects of the reinforcement of the molasses act were seen in the
trade relations between the
New England colonies and the
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