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Navigation Act allowed merchants to choose the buyer.
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The Navigation Acts restricted American trade as follows 1. Only British ships were allowed to carry goods from colonies. 2. Only British citizens were allowed to conduct trade with colonies 3. Commodities could only be exported to British ports.
They didn't want to pay taxes on goods.
You can trade with you colonies, get cheap goods from them, manufacture them, then sell them back for far much more than you bought them for! You can also attack them and take their stuff, but that rarely ever happend.
England and its other colonies A+
England and its other colonies A+
Navigation Act allowed merchants to choose the buyer.
raw goods
The Navigation Acts restricted American trade as follows 1. Only British ships were allowed to carry goods from colonies. 2. Only British citizens were allowed to conduct trade with colonies 3. Commodities could only be exported to British ports.
The Navigation Acts restricted American trade as follows 1. Only British ships were allowed to carry goods from colonies. 2. Only British citizens were allowed to conduct trade with colonies 3. Commodities could only be exported to British ports.
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The most important economic enterprise in the American colonies was the lumber industry. The American colonies traded many goods including cotton and tobacco.
They didn't want to pay taxes on goods.
The economic relationship was called Mercantilism. In this system raw goods are sold by the colonies to the "mother" country. The "mother" country would then process and manufacture these goods into a product and sell them back to the colonies at a higher rate. This way, the mainland would make a surplus while the colonies would lose money.
Becuase of the colonies ability to produce raw goods. They needed cheap labor or in this case free to collect the crops and other goods. The answer, Slaves!
You can trade with you colonies, get cheap goods from them, manufacture them, then sell them back for far much more than you bought them for! You can also attack them and take their stuff, but that rarely ever happend.