Question

Colonists like Patrick Henry rejected the Sugar Act because:

Answer 1

Sugar Act 1764 was also called the Plantation Act or Revenue Act.

• The Act seeks to raise revenue to help raise military for protection the American colonies at that time.

• The British introduce the Sugar Act to end smuggling trade in sugar and molasses in the American colonies.

• Colonist such Patrick Henry believed that only their own representative assemblies could tax them and insisted that Sugar Act was unconstitutional.

In conclusion, the Colonist rejected the Act because the tax was high and was passed without colonial consent.

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