French and Spain
The navigation act, was designed to make the colonies and the parent country (England) dependent on each other, without foreign interference. By doing this, England would exclude foreign vessels from trading with the English Colonies.
Scotland
They were the first colonies actually succeeded in establishment.
The Navigation Acts were imposed on the American colonies by England in order to restrict trade with every country except England. It affected them negatively because they were no longer allowed to trade with anyone except their home country, and therefore their goods and supplies were being controlled. Trade was kept inside the British Empire, and for the most part, the colonists obeyed the acts. However it was one of the things that sparked tension between the colonies and England.
The concept was that the colonies would trade exclusively with Britain. The British would obtain cheap raw materials from the colonies. Then, Britain would make useable goods out of the raw materials and sell the expensive goods back to the colonies.
The navigation act, was designed to make the colonies and the parent country (England) dependent on each other, without foreign interference. By doing this, England would exclude foreign vessels from trading with the English Colonies.
From the beginning of his reign, Charles II had felt it necessary, to regulate colonial trade. To create economic unity within the empire, he reenacted a law that excluded foreign vessels from trading with English colonies. This sort of regulation is called a navigation act. It was designed to make the colonies and parent country dependent on each other, without foreign interference.
French and Spain
The intention of the Navigation Acts was to regulate the trade of the empire and to enable the mother country to derive a profit from colonies. These acts were passed by the British parliament.
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.
The Navigation Act 1660 (passed on 13 September) added a twist to Oliver Cromwell's Act: ships' crews had to be three-quarters English, and "enumerated" products not produced by the mother country, such as tobacco, cotton, and sugarwereto be shipped from the colonies only to England or other English colonies.
The English colonies
It is the father country of the language, which then was spread to its colonies.
Navigation Acts
The same reason the UK is not the only English-speaking country: colonies, colonies, COLONIES!!!
Through the English economic system of mercantilism - colonies providing the mother country with wealth.
Scotland