The Sugar Act of 1764 was designed to
A) damage the market for sugar grown in the colonies.
B) eliminate the illegal sugar trade among the colonies, the French, and the West Indies.
C) establish new vice-admiralty courts in America to try accused smugglers.
D) lower the colonial duty on molasses.
E) All these answers are correct.

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The Sugar Act of 1764 aimed to achieve multiple objectives: it sought to damage the market for sugar grown in the colonies by imposing stricter regulations, aimed to eliminate the illegal sugar trade among the colonies, the French, and the West Indies by enforcing these regulations, established new vice-admiralty courts in America to try accused smugglers more efficiently, and lowered the colonial duty on molasses as a means to encourage the purchase of British molasses over that from non-British territories.

The Sugar Act of 1764 Was Designed to