Navigation Acts
British mercantile legislation
Navigation Acts refers to a series of English laws from the 17th and 18th centuries that restricted colonial trade to benefit Britain.
The acts required that goods shipped to and from British colonies travel on British ships and pass through British ports.
American resentment of these trade restrictions contributed to tensions preceding the Revolutionary War.
The Navigation Acts made it illegal to ship tobacco directly to France.
- British EmpireVast colonial domain
- mercantilismTrade policy favoring exports
- taxation without representationFees imposed without elected consent
- colonial tradeExchange between colonizers, colonized
- smugglingIllegal covert transport
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