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effect on American colonial history
influence of Molasses Act
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opposition by Adams
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Article History

Type	Description	Contributor	Date
	Add new Web site: Teaching American History - The Sugar Act.	Gloria Lotha	Dec 10, 2024
	Add new Web site: Yale Law School - Lillian Goldman Law Library - The Avalon Project - Great Britian: Parliament - The Sugar Act : 1764.	Grace Young	Oct 24, 2024
	Add new Web site: Duke Law Scholarship Repository - Lobbying by Foreign Governments on the Sugar Act Amendments of 1962.	Yamini Chauhan	Sep 12, 2024
	Add new Web site: World History Encyclopedia - Sugar Act.	Gloria Lotha	Mar 08, 2024
	Add new Web site: American History Central - The Sugar Act of 1764.	Gloria Lotha	Oct 20, 2022
	Add new Web site: Alpha History - The Sugar Act.	Emily Rodriguez	May 16, 2022
	Add new Web site: American Battlefield Trust - Sugar Act.	Gloria Lotha	Apr 01, 2021
	Cross-references added.	Amy McKenna	May 22, 2020
	Add new Web site: Colonial America - Sugar Act.	Gloria Lotha	Jan 03, 2020
	Corrected display issue.	Adam Augustyn	Jan 05, 2018
	Noted that the act is also known as the Plantation Act and Revenue Act. Added additional description of the context for the act's implementation.	Jeff Wallenfeldt	Apr 23, 2015
	Added new Web site: United States History - Sugar Act of 1764.	Gloria Lotha	Feb 04, 2009
	Added new Web site: History Central - Sugar Act.	Gloria Lotha	Feb 04, 2009
	Added new Web site: The Civil War - The Sugar Act.	Gloria Lotha	Feb 04, 2009
	Added new Web site: ThinkQuest - The Sugar Act.	Gloria Lotha	Feb 04, 2009
	Added new Web site: UShistory.org - The Sugar Act.	Deepti Mahajan	Nov 14, 2007
	Article added to new online database.	The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica	Jul 20, 1998