The Causes Of The American Revolution

I believe that the Navigation Acts were not a good idea. I think this because The Acts of Parliament restricted colonies to trade within all of the Colonies and Countries. The New England Colonies had to starve every day because they were waiting on the ships until they finally got tired of waiting around for the ship. England thought that the New England Colonies had enough fished food out of the sea. They didn’t, they only had what they could find.

England was a very competitive country when it came to colonization. It wanted to be known mostly for the power it had as well as its success. England wanted to maintain its reputation as the leading country by establishing greater control over its land. In the North American colonies, it wasn’t until after the French and Indian war in 1763 that England really tried to totally establish control over the colonies. England tried to establish control by imposing taxes, controlling trade, and by establishing the proclamation of 1763. Despite these steps they took to establish control, they were not ultimately successful.

British colonies acquired self-rule from the beginning starting with the Puritans. Spanish colonies were suppressed by the Catholic Church and they instituted slavery. Colonist settled British North American for many reasons. Some traveled for profits; others came to venturing or in investment of stock companies. But, the reason for coming are the type of colony, when the colony and when the English settler arrived they came in encountered with the natives population, Spanish and the French settlements. African slavery changed the new worlds demographic in the early 1600’s. During the late seventeenth century, religion gave the Puritans the opportunity to begin a new life, achieve social class, gain respect in the colonies, and have individual morality.

The Navigation Acts was one of the policies engaged among the colonists in the 1600s by the British government. It contained four series of Navigational Acts from 1651 to 1673. The Navigation Acts were used to emphasize in pressuring the colonists to surrender their trade with other countries, allowing only English ships to deal out cargo between ports. Some items were not even allowed to be shipped to other ports, such as like tobacco and rice. The taxes deposited on the items made it practically difficult for the colonists to challenge European manufacturing. As the colonists were miserable with the Navigation Acts, they complained to the English parliament, but when the complaints did not provide any solution or even debate about the new

Then the taxations angered the British and Colonist into The Boston Massacre and The Boston Tea Party. Anyways, before The French and Indian War, the Navigation Act was placed on the Colonists. “I can’t forget my friends for dying, I don’t find these acts of theirs at all amusing,” is a famous quote from George Bernard Shaw during the time of the Navigation Acts.

The Navigation Acts forced the colonies to only trade directly with Great Britain. Clearly, this sparked anger in the colonists; why couldn’t they trade with whoever they wanted to? The British greedily wanted all of the gold, and all the poor colonist wanted was a bit more freedom. The British where using mercantilism, a way of gaining wealth, by putting taxes on the imported colonist goods, which were then sent off to other places. The British just wanted all the wealth, no matter who’s toes they step on in the process. The colonist rightly protested, but the British said that this would benefit everyone; apparently, that wasn’t true. The British made the colonist pay for the trade ships, and the colonist had to load and unload the imports and exports. This act increased tension during, and after, the French and Indian War. The French and Indian War, also known as the Seven Years’ War, was over a highly successful trade and land expansion. This short war lasted for about nine years, leading to a British and colonial victory. At first, it looked like the French where going to win, easily swatting away the enemy forces; however, the tide turned when the British got a new general in

To insure that the American colonies would contribute to this overall sense of British wealth, various Navigation Acts were passed beginning in 1650 to regulate trade between the colonies, England, and the rest of the world. In many cases, ships carrying American products to other European countries had to stop in England first to pay duties before continuing onward. Also, goods traveling to and from America had to be

England implemented a new policy called mercantilism, which in its simplest form means, export over and above import. To achieve this novel policy, the government passed the Navigation Acts, a series of laws which made America export all of its raw materials to Britain exclusively. Britian then would take the raw materials make goods and sell it to the colonies. The colonies inturn could not compete with Britain in manufactured goods. The Navigation Acts from 1651-1673 hindered colonial trade while advancing Britain economy and trade. The colonies complained about the laws and soon started smuggling goods. Enraged, Charles II revoked the Massachusetts Bay Colony’s charter in 1684, as well as legalized an outcast squatter settlement called Rhode Island in retribution to the colonists for ignoring his laws. Although in the end, Britain's need for colonial support against the possibility of war with the French and the triangular trade routes increasing economic growth, Britain overlooked smuggling and instituted Salutary Neglect. The Navigation Acts obstructed the colonies commerce at first but in the end accidentally created the Triangular trade. Which aided the little colonies due to the new found large scale international trade and linked the American colonies with the West Indies, Africa and

By 1765, there was quite a bit of tension between the American colonies and the mother country, England. The Sugar Act (Goldfield, the American Journey, 123) had left a sour taste of distrust in England in the mouths of the colonials. They were now told who they could trade with and how much and felt restricted by the King, who lived an entire ocean away. This led to stirrings of rebellion, and in an effort to stop that, Britain attempted (and succeeded in some cases) to pass a string of new laws, or Acts, to corral the colonials into submission.

The fist British settlement in the Americas was Jamestown, Virginia in 1607. From 1607 to 1763 the colonies started growing and the colonists had national pride. “This all changed after the Seven Years War (French and Indian War) when the government started imposing new laws.

Between 1650 and 1696, British Parliament passed a series of Navigation Acts limity colonial trade by using the system of mercantilism; it forbade the colonists from trading specific items such as sugar and cotton with any country other than England. Colonist will protest about the unfair taxes and requirements they were expected to follow under the NAvigation Acts England responded to these protest by saying it would benefit everyone because, there was a steady market for these goods in England. Not all colonist agrees. Some colonist resorted to smuggling items in and out of the overall treatment by the British.

The British were actually more reasonable than most Americans have traditionally believed. For example, the navigation laws, laws that regulated trade to and from the colonies, would be seen as an American grievance but were not really enforced by the British government until 1763, which allowed people to smuggle goods, “But the truth is that until 1763, the various navigation laws imposed no intolerable burden, mainly because there were only loosely enforced. Enterprising colonial merchants learned early to disregard or evade troublesome restrictions. Some of the

Before 1763, the only British laws that truly affected the colonists were the Navigation Acts, which monitored the colony's trade so that it traded solely with England. As this law

England, in an effort to establish greater control over North American colonies in the mid-1600s under the rule of King Charles II, implemented the Navigation Acts to regulate colonial commerce, along with increased British law in North America, most notably in New England. The Navigation Acts essentially created a monopoly in which colonial settlements could only trade with England, thus contributing to England's overall wealth and power, according to the theory of mercantilism. Before King Charles II passed the Navigational Acts, the English Parliament created laws that kept Dutch ships out of the American colonies, limiting some colonial trade opportunity. The first of these Navigational Acts kept the colonies from trading with any nation other than England, along with requiring the colonists that grew tobacco to only sell it to England. The second act required any country that wished to trade with the colonies go through England first, giving England an opportunity to tax them.

The Americans had lived independently and autonomously from Great Britain since the Puritans arrived in Massachusetts in 1620. They had developed their own patriotism and did not consider themselves to be British subjects. Thus, they no longer wanted or needed Britain, for the British were like foreigners in America.