Human rights groups in the 20th century worked to

a. by accepting the election of president abraham lincoln in 1860 and convincing other southern states to do the same

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.