The Navigation Act

During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the Americans became embroiled in a series of wars. Navigation Acts of 1660, French and Indian war 1754-1763, Pontiac’s Rebellion and proclamation of 1763, The Sugar Act, The Boston Massacre, The Boston Tea Party, The Intoleration Act are all the 10 acts. I am going to talk to u about The Navigation Act of 1660. Between 1650 and 1696 the colonist passed a Navigation Act limiting colonial trade by using mercantilism. It forbade the colonists from trading with any other country except England. They used ships to transport goods. All trade goods had to go through all English ports, were import tax came in. Colonists will protest about the tax that they have to follow. They say that

Borrowing heavily to finance the war, he paid Prussia to fight in Europe and reimbursed the colonies for raising troops in North America. With the fall of Montreal in September 1760, the French lost their last foothold in Canada. Soon, Spain joined France against England, and for the rest of the war Britain concentrated on seizing French and Spanish territories in other parts of the world. At the peace conference in 1763, the British received Canada from France and Florida from Spain, but permitted France to keep its west Indian sugar island and gave Louisiana to Spain. The Pontiacs rebellion and Proclamation of 1763 was after the French, Indians, and Spanish. They would agree to move and remove settlers from the Ohio valley. Chief Pontiacs unsatisfied with the French’s agreement’s to hand over land that entirely to them decided to carry on a war effort against the British after the conclusion of the French and Indian war. This war, Pontiacs was being fought over the expansions of the English colonies into the frontier which british had plans on paying of the war, and by the newly acquired fur trade they had won from the French. The Pontiacs rebellion was named Pontiac went

He wanted to start a rebellion, because the British fur trapper and traders were on the land were the French and Indians lived. Then the British moved the French off the land ant he Indians didn’t receive any more presents from the the French. Then the Indians took over the British forts and burned the colonists settlements in the country. King George 3 wanted to end Pontiacs rebellion so he issued a proclamation that gave all the land west6 of the Alp. Mtns. to the Indians. The Sugar Act OF 1764 was a British law passed by the parliament of Great Britain on April 5, 1764 , that was designed to raise revenue from the American colonists in the 13 colonies. This act set a tax on sugar and molasses imported into the colonies which impacted the manufactured was mainly about the manufacture of rum which was a highly lacerative product, that favored England by controlling trade epically in respect of the import of sugarcane from the west Indians constitution issue impact as well as the American revenue act or the American duties act. The English policies of the salutary neglect that was in effect from 1607-1763 encouraged the colonists to violate the law by bribing customs officials and smuggling. The sugar act was some reasons of anger, resentment, dissension and ultimately revolution in colonial America. The sugar act was one of the series of taxes divided great Britain and its colonies in America. Did you know that