Alum is a salt that in chemistry is a combination of an alkali metal, such as sodium, potassium, or ammonium and a trivalent metal, such as aluminum, iron, or chromium.
USDA allocates a share of the anticipated U.S. sugar market to sugar producers annually. This allotment basically determines the amount of sugar an individual company is allowed to sell that year. However, these allotments can be, and often are, adjusted based on harvest conditions.
The Sugar Act is one of the manytaxes imposed by Parliament. It also added tax on molasses to stopthe colonists from smuggling it in. This law not only taxed sugarand molasses, but also taxed other products that England shipped tothe colonists.