The Navigation Acts encouraged smuggling because there was no method of controlling it. The Dutch offered a much better deal to the colonists, thus making smuggling in Dutch imports and smuggling out exports to the Dutch very worthwhile.
Some colonists resorted to smuggling in order to get around the Navigation Acts. They were a series of acts that restricted foreign shipping for trade between the colonies and England.
The acts encouraged shipbuilding.
They encouraged colonists to build ships.
The Navigation Acts that were developed by the 18th century restricted shipments to be sent between the colonies and Britain. In general, the colonists despised the acts and smuggling was rampant because they resented the additional duties on products like sugar, tobacco, and molasses.
Navigation Act
The Navigation Act of (1650-1696) encouraged smuggling because the colonies did not want the king to get any of their goods so the smuggled more and more of the goods with out the king noticing.
smuggling
They encouraged shipbuilding in the American colonies
They encouraged shipbuilding in the American colonies
Some colonists resorted to smuggling in order to get around the Navigation Acts. They were a series of acts that restricted foreign shipping for trade between the colonies and England.
Some colonists resorted to smuggling in order to get around the Navigation Acts. They were a series of acts that restricted foreign shipping for trade between the colonies and England.
The acts encouraged shipbuilding.
The acts encouraged shipbuilding.
The acts encouraged shipbuilding.
They encouraged colonists to build ships.
The Navigation Acts encouraged the colonists to become smigglers to avoid the higher costs of using English Onlyshipping.
The Navigation Acts that were developed by the 18th century restricted shipments to be sent between the colonies and Britain. In general, the colonists despised the acts and smuggling was rampant because they resented the additional duties on products like sugar, tobacco, and molasses.