With the Sugar Act, Britain

question 75

Multiple Choice

With the Sugar Act, Britain

• A) attempted to force the North American colonies to import more sugar from the British West Indies.
• B) abolished slavery on all colonial sugar plantations.
• C) required colonists to work for wages on Barbadian sugar plantations.
• D) cracked down on smuggling by prosecuting accused smugglers without the benefit of a jury trial.
• E) required South Carolina and Virginia to shift their main crops to sugar.

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