Sugar Act. American History. a law passed by the British Parliament in 1764 raising duties on foreign refined sugar imported by the colonies so as to give British sugar growers in the West Indies a monopoly on the colonial market. This was the start to the American revolution.
Bunker Hill, Battle of Bunker hill started in 1775. The first great battle of the Revolutionary War; it was fought near Boston in June 1775. The British drove the Americans