Describe the intellectual and ideological movements that influenced the revolutions that swept the Atlantic World from 1750 to 1900

from the conditions of the working class in england by friedrich engels,the main idea is :

the sugar act, also known as the american revenue act, was a revenue-raising act passed by the british parliament of great britain in april of 1764. the earlier molasses act of 1733, which had imposed a tax of six pence per gallon of molasses, had never been effectively collected due to colonial resistance and evasion.