Sugar+Act

Sugar Act : Money collected from the sugar act was to be used to help pay the costs of defending and protecting the american frontier. Actual costs of the stamp act was relatively small. What made colonist mad was the standard it set. In the past, taxes and duties on colonial trade had always been viewed as measures to regulate commerce, not to raise money. The Stamp Act, however, was viewed as a direct attempt by England to raise money in the colonies without the approval of the colonial legislatures.