The Navigation Acts (1651, 1660) were
acts of Parliament intended to promote the self-sufficiency of the British Empire by restricting colonial trade to England and decreasing dependence on foreign imported goods
.
1673–The Act of 1673 stated that
all goods not bonded in England must have a duty and bond placed on them when the ship reached the colonies
. The colonial governor collected the bond and duty and thus started a tradition that continued through the Revolution.
The Act
banned foreign ships from transporting goods from Asia, Africa or America to England or its colonies
; only ships with an English owner, master and a majority English crew would be accepted.
The Navigation Acts were
designed primarily to increase Britain’s standing in international trade and shipping
. … After the defeat of the French in 1763, the Navigation Acts were more heavily enforced than they had been before on the thirteen colonies, with additional taxes being put on luxury items like tea and sugar.
In 1650 parliament
passed an ordinance forbidding any foreign ships in British colonies
. … This law restricted trade of Asian and African goods going to British Islands and American colonies; conversely West Indies and American goods could not be shipped in foreign ships to the rest of the world.
Navigation Acts angered the colonists because
limited limited or controlled all trade with the colonies where Britain said it was the only country allowed to trade with the colonies
. The Navigation act were the laws which were meant to enrich the England by regulating the trade on its colonies.
The Navigation Act of 1660 continued the policies set forth in the 1651 act and enumerated certain articles-
sugar, tobacco, cotton, wool, indigo, and ginger
-that were to be shipped only to England or an English province. …
The Acts
increased colonial revenue by taxing the goods going to and from British colonies
. The Navigation Acts (particularly their effect on trade in the colonies) were one of the direct economic causes of the American Revolution.
Once under British control, regulations were imposed on the colonies that allowed the colony to produce only raw materials and to trade only with Britain. Many colonists resented the Navigation Acts
because they increased regulation and reduced their opportunities for profit, while England profited from colonial work
.
- Shipments from Europe and English colonies had to go through England first.
- Any imports to England from the colonies had to come in ships built and owned by British subjects.
- The colonies could sell key, such as tobacco and sugar, only to England.
How did the Navigation Acts Affect the colonists?
it directed the flow of goods between England and the colonies
. It told colonial merchants that they could not use foreign ships to send their goods, even if it was less expensive.
The rise of the Dutch carrying trade, which threatened to drive English shipping from the seas
, was the immediate cause for the Navigation Act of 1651, and it in turn was a major cause of the First Dutch War. …
A series of
British regulations which taxed goods imported by the colonies from places other than Britain
, or otherwise sought to control and regulate colonial trade.
What was the date of the Sugar Act?
Titled The American Revenue Act of 1764
On
April 5, 1764
, Parliament passed a modified version of the Sugar and Molasses Act (1733), which was about to expire. Under the Molasses Act colonial merchants had been required to pay a tax of six pence per gallon on the importation of foreign molasses.
The worst provision of the Navigation acts is
legislation, trade
, with the colonies was to be managed only in English or colonial ships. Itemize products such as sugar, tobacco, and indigo were to be shipped only within the empire.
In general, the colonists obeyed the Trade and Navigation Acts
when they benefitted them and they ignored them when they ran contrary to colonial interests
. In general, the colonists obeyed the Trade and Navigation Acts when they benefitted them and they ignored them when they ran contrary to colonial interests.
