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Seven Years' War and Revolution Causes · US History

The Sugar Act (1764) was actually a decrease in the tax on molasses, yet it was unpopular because:

  1. It only ever applied to sugar and molasses that were produced in the Southern colonies
  2. It required all sugar to be purchased from the French
  3. It included new measures to strictly enforce the tax and end smuggling
  4. It banned the production of rum in the colonies
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Correct answer: It included new measures to strictly enforce the tax and end smuggling

While the tax rate was lowered, the Sugar Act established vice-admiralty courts where smugglers were tried without juries. The increased enforcement threatened the livelihoods of New England merchants and challenged colonial legal traditions.

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