The Navigation Acts were repealed in 1849 under the influence of a free trade philosophy. The Navigation Acts were passed under the
economic theory of mercantilism
, under which wealth was to be increased by restricting colonial trade to the mother country rather than through free trade.
The Navigation Acts were repealed in 1849
under the influence of a free trade philosophy
. The Navigation Acts were passed under the economic theory of mercantilism, under which wealth was to be increased by restricting colonial trade to the mother country rather than through free trade.
The most significant result of the Navigation Acts upon American history was
the stifling of colonial manufacturing and increased resentment against the mother country
.
The main colonial response to the Navigation Acts was
smuggling
. Instead, England wanted all trade from the colonies to go through England first, allowing the mother country to profit off of all the trade. These laws made many colonists very angry because they curtailed the colonists’ economic opportunities.
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
.
These laws were known as Navigation Acts. Their purpose was
to regulate the trade of the empire and to enable the mother country to derive a profit from the colonies which had been planted overseas
. … The purpose of these laws was to prevent the development of manufacturing in the 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.
The Navigation Acts only benefited
England
. The Acts added costs to all the items that the colonies had wanted to import. Instead of the prices being controlled by competition with other importers English merchants could charge what ever the market could support.
The navigation acts were
passed to restrict colonial trade and to stop the colonies from exporting goods to foreign markets
.
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.
- 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.
- 1651 Navigation Act.
- 1660 Navigation Act.
- 1663 Navigation Act aka the Staple Act.
- The Navigation Acts of 1673 (aka the Plantation Duty Act), 1696 and 1773 (aka the Molasses Act) closed the loopholes of the previous Navigation Acts and increased taxes.
Enumeration was abandoned in 1822, and the navigation laws were finally repealed in
1849 and 1854
.
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.
1663–The Staple Act of 1663
altered preexisting regulations so that any goods picked up in foreign ports had to be taken back to England
, unloaded, inspected, paid for in duties, and repacked for shipment to the colonies.
