Navigation Acts
navigation acts
The Prohibitory Act was designed to cut off all trade of the American colonies.
Parliament passed the Navigation Acts to keep all the profits from the colonies for England. They banned trade in colonial ports with any foreign country other than England. Thus, goods couldn't go straight to Europe, bypass Britain and keep British merchants from making money.
1. Parliament prevented westward movement through the Proclamation of 1763. 2. Parliament restricted trade through the Navigations Acts, which was the codification of mercantilism. 3. Parliament passed the Stamp act to pay for British troops stationed in the Americas. 4. It passed the Townsend duties, which included the tea tax. All other Acts of Parliament were in response to American Actions, such as the Boston Tea Party.
In 1807 parliament passed a law that finally ended slavery in Britain.
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To enforce mercantilism England passed the NAVIGATION ACTS, (Trade Acts) beginning in 1651. These acts were designed to control trade with its colonies. These laws forced the colonies to trade only with England. England passed other Trade Acts that continued to control colonial trade.
A restriction passed by Congress on March 1, 1809, before the War of 1812, to forbid direct American trade with European belligerents and in response to British control of American trade. It was used as a coercive measure to deprive France and England of the American commercial market until they resolved their economic warfare and returned to neutral trade policies.
Parliament passed the Slavery Abolition Act in 1833.
designed to encourage the colonies to trade with other nations
During the Colonial Period of American History, British Parliament wanted to control colonial trade and otherwise legislate taxes or fees upon commercial affairs for the sake of profit: Great Britain's economic advancement was a primary goal. It should not be overlooked that another goal at work in British colonial 'meddling' was maintaining administrative and political hold of the rapidly growing, increasingly independence-minded 'Americans.'
By passing the Navigation Acts