It provided the minimal assistance initially but eventually increased assistance and market regulation because they wanted to show minimum capability to what they were doing and how they were doing it.
The Sugar Act, also known as the American Revenue Act, was a revenue-raising act passed by the British Parliament of Great Britain in April of 1764. The earlier Molasses Act of 1733, which had imposed a tax of six pence per gallon of molasses, had never been effectively collected due to colonial resistance and evasion.
True, increased world competition is one way that farming in the United States changed in the late 1800s.
