Is anything in this article factually incorrect? Please submit a comment. References: Oscar T. Barck and Hugh T. Lefler, Colonial America Lefler and William S.
Colonial period Economics and Economic Development. Law and legal history. UNC Press. Smith, Carmen Miner. In how Navigation acts accelerated the development of capitalism in europe?? Hello, This article from the Library of Congress should help you. Erin Bradford, Government and Heritage Library.
Thanks Matilda! Please let us know what other information would be useful for your homework assignments. Your name. More information about text formats. At the same time the mother country compelled English merchants to buy tobacco from the American colonies only. These laws were known as Navigation Acts.
Their purpose was to regulate the trade of the empire and to enable the mother country to derive a profit from the colonies which had been planted overseas.
Parliament passed laws which forbade the shipping of woolens, hats, and iron products out of the colony in which they were manufactured. The purpose of these laws was to prevent the development of manufacturing in the colonies. Partly because of these laws, most things were made by hand in the home for use by the family or on the farm and not for sale. In , the year after the founding of Georgia, Great Britain passed the Molasses Act, the purpose of which was to prevent colonial merchants and ship captains from trading with the rich French West Indies.
The Navigation Acts were hard to enforce. Smuggling was common in the colonies and in England. As a result, the Navigation Acts did not successfully control the colonial trade.
0コメント