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Emile Midgley: Passed on September 17, 1764, the Sugar Act was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain, a revision to the earlier Sugar and Molasses Act of 1733, which had imposed a tax of sixpence per gallon on molasses in order to make English products cheaper than those from the French West Indies. Colonists had largely evaded the earlier tax by bribing local officials. The Sugar Act, passed under the leadership of British Prime Minister Lord George Grenville, reduced the tax from sixpence to threepence but provided for the tax to be strictly enforced and expanded its scope to include wine, cloth, Coffee, cambric, pimento, and Printed calico and other goods.Effect on the colonies:The Sugar Act was one of three acts forced by Gren poser to collect tax for the money used in the French! and Indian war. This caused local production to increase in the colonies, but colonists did not view it as taxation without representation until 1765, and it was one of the most minor causes of the American Revolution.The Act was abolished due to the economic pressure the protest had on British economy.This Act also allowed officers to seize goods from smugglers without going to court. The Sugar Act and the new laws to control smuggling angered the colonists. The colonists boycotted the taxed goods.The chief power behind the protests to the Sugar Act was Samuel Adams. Claiming the Act to be against the British constitution, natural law, and the Massachusetts charter and therefore, void, he failed to incite either the other colonies or the bulk of Massachusetts citizens to protest. Switching tactics to emotional appeals and mongering fear that future, equally unrepresented, acts would affect the broader populace (especially land owners), Adams and his supporters were able t! o get some moderate groundswell of protestation. This backgrou! nd level of dissent, largely engineered by Adams, helped to foment the more widespread resistance to the Stamp Act 1765....Show more