- first act from British parliament that placed a tax on imported sugar. * 5 points
Sugar Act
Stamp Act
Townshend Acts
Quartering Act
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The sugar act. The Sugar Act was created so that the British parliament could make money from North American colonies. It was made to raise colonial revenue to fund the Crown (the British legislature).

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b) race riots in several cities

the second significant cause of the great migration was the desire of black southerners to escape segregation, known euphemistically as jim crow. rural african american southerners believed that segregation - and racism and prejudice against blacks - was significantly less intense in the north.