Navigation+Acts







In the seventeenth century, the //English Parliament passed the Navigation Acts. The acts were originally aimed at excluding the Dutch from the profits made by English deal. The Navigation Acts were basically a series of laws that restricted the use of foreign shipping for trade between the England and its colonies, which started in 1651.// [|Video] [|Navigation Acts]

They decreed that all commerce with the colonies had to be carried on in English-built ships (a blow at Dutch competitors), and that certain “enumerated articles,” including sugar, tobacco, and indigo, could be exported only to England.








 * The rise of Duth carrying trade, which ultimately kept the English from shipping from the seas.
 * The Navigation Acts was passed to keep any goods from being transported to England.
 * The Navigation Acts causes the first Dutch War.