What were the effects of the Sugar Act?

The Sugar
Act was meant to be a replacement for the earlier Molasses Act. The Molasses Act had been passed
by Parliament in an attempt to respond to complaints about trade between the British West Indies
and the American Colonies. The Molasses produced by the British West Indies was more expensive
than the imports from other European countries, and the West Indies had little use for the
barter goods the colonists had to offer. A tax on imported molasses was meant to help raise the
price of imported molasses, thereby making West Indies molasses more competitive....