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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.

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How did some colonial merchants get around the Navagaion acts?

Smuggling


Why did some colonists smuggle goods in the 1760s?

Most colonists smuggled goods because they felt they were being unfairly taxed by the British Empire and this was a way to get around it.


How did some colonial leaders protest the Townshend Acts?

Colonists in Boston decided to protest the townshend acts. They called for a boycott of British goods. Samuel Adams led the boycott.


Why did the colonists protest?

Some reasons of why the colonists rebelled against the British were: 1. The Boston Massacre 2. Taxation without Representation 3. Intolerable Acts 4. Proclamation of 1763 5. The Stamp Act 6. The Quartering Acts 7. The Sugar act


Two ways the navigation acts benefited England?

They had the advantage (to England) of severely limiting the ability of Dutch ships to participate in the carrying trade. This encouraged the expansion of the English merchant fleet, which became the largest in the world. The Navigation Acts, by reserving British colonial trade to British shipping, may have significantly assisted in the growth of London as a major financial center, at the expense of Dutch cities. The increase in merchant shipping and in trade generally also facilitated to a rapid increase in the size and quality of the British Navy, which led to Britain becoming a global superpower until the mid 20th Century. The benefits to the colonies are backhanded benefits. The Navigation Acts encouraged the development of some pretty formalized smuggling and a healthy black market developed. This showed the colonists that they did have the ability to break free of England and survive. Secondly, they were a major precipitating cause of the American Revolution and forced the break with England much faster than would have otherwise happened.

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How did some colonists get around navigation acts?

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.


How did some colonists aviod the navigation acts?

smuggling


How did colonists get around the navigations act?

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.


How did some colonists respond to the Navigation Act?

before the navigation acts the colonists could trade more freely


What are some quotes for the Navigation Acts?

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What were some of the intolerable acts?

the colonists had to let British soldiers sleep,eat and drink.......water in their homes is one of the intolerable acts


Were the navigation acts of the 1660s a problem for Georgia?

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What do the colonists do about The Intolerable Acts?

After the Boston Tea Party, the British clamped down on the Massachusetts colony, and passed what came to be known as the Intolerable Acts. Most colonists were outraged by them; they seemed far too harsh and unjust: colonists felt that the acts strangled commerce and trade, and treated the people of Massachusetts like convicted criminals. Some of the colonists mounted protests, and many refused to comply with these new laws. A few of the more influential colonists, including John Hancock, even wrote to the royal authorities to demand that these acts be repealed immediately. But when nothing seemed to work, the Intolerable Acts led the colonists to decide a revolution was necessary.


How did England respond to the success that colonist had trading?

they made the navigation act that said that England get some of the profit


How did the Townsend Acts of 1767 that required the colonists to pay taxes on imported goods like tea affect some colonists?

The Townsend Acts really miffed some colonists. They revolted. But they were also afraid of being caught or blamed. So they dressed up like Indians and dumped tea into the harbor; they could then blame Native Americans as being the scoundrels, not the colonists, who would be punished, perhaps hung for being unruly to the King's authority.


Navigation acts support the system of mercantilism?

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What did the colonist do the intolerable act?

After the Boston Tea Party, the British clamped down on the Massachusetts colony, and passed what came to be known as the Intolerable Acts. Most colonists were outraged by them; they seemed far too harsh and unjust: colonists felt that the acts strangled commerce and trade, and treated the people of Massachusetts like convicted criminals. Some of the colonists mounted protests, and many refused to comply with these new laws. A few of the more influential colonists, including John Hancock, even wrote to the royal authorities to demand that these acts be repealed immediately. But when nothing seemed to work, the Intolerable Acts led the colonists to decide a revolution was necessary.