The Sugar Act

The Sugar Act was when in a movie there was a character named sugar and they said act so they called it the Sugar Act.... actually it wasn't that.

-->The sugar Act was actually an act passed by the British Parliament in 1764. 

It placed a three percent (3%) tax on foreign refined sugar that was brought by the american colonists and it also increased taxes on:

• Coffee 
• Indigo
• Certain kinds of wine during The French and Indian War. 

It banned importation of rum and French wines. These taxes affected only a certain part of the population, but the most affected ones were the merchants.  Besides, the taxes were raised with out consent of the colonists. This was one of the first times in which the colonists wanted a say in how much they were taxed. 

The sugar act was also known as the revenue act.
 Ship captains were required to maintain detailed manifests of their cargo and the papers were checked  before anything could be unloaded from the ships.