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From The Columbia Encyclopedia
in English history, name given to certain parliamentary legislation, more properly called the British Acts of Trade. The acts were an outgrowth of mercantilism , and followed principles laid down by Tudor and early Stuart trade regulations. They had as their purpose the expansion of the English carrying trade, the provision from the colonies of materials England could not produce, and the establishment of colonial markets for English manufactures. The rise of the Dutch carrying trade, which threatened to drive English shipping from the seas, was the immediate cause for the Navigation Act of 1651, and it in turn was a major cause of the First Dutch War . It forbade the importation of plantation commodities of Asia, Africa, and America except in ships owned by Englishmen. European goods could be brought into England and English possessions only in ships belonging to Englishmen, to people of the country where the cargo was produced, or to people of the country receiving first shipment. …
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A series of acts passed by the English Parliament during the seventeenth century to protect England's trade and to prevent the American colonies from directly trading with foreign countries or other colonies. The act of 1651 provided that all goods imported to England must be carried on English…
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From Gale Encyclopedia of U.S. Economic History
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A series of laws passed by British Parliament beginning in the mid-seventeenth century, the Navigation Acts were designed to protect British maritime trade from European competition, primarily from the Dutch, and ensure that Great Britain profited from all commerce with its colonies. The acts…
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From The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Business, Labor, and Economic History
The outbreak of the English Civil War in 1642 temporarily cut the American colonies’ supply lines to the mother country, leading the colonists to establish commercial relations with the Dutch and French. At the end of the war, England sought to reassert control over the American trade by passing a…
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From The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Military and Diplomatic History
The outbreak of the English Civil War in 1642 temporarily cut the American colonies’ supply lines to the mother country, leading the colonists to establish commercial relations with the Dutch and French. At the end of the war, England sought to reassert control over the American trade by passing a…
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From The Columbia Encyclopedia
in English history, name given to certain parliamentary legislation, more properly called the British Acts of Trade. The acts were an outgrowth of mercantilism , and followed principles laid down by Tudor and early Stuart trade regulations. They had as their purpose the expansion of the English…
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From The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea
laws, long defunct, which restricted the employment of foreign ships in a nation's external trade. The first British Navigation Acts were passed in 1381 and 1390, and these expressly forbade the carriage of any merchandise out of British ports except in a British ship. Later Navigation Acts…
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From The Hutchinson Unabridged Encyclopedia with Atlas and Weather Guide
In British history, a series of acts of Parliament passed from 1381 to protect English shipping from foreign competition and to ensure monopoly trading between Britain and its colonies. The last was repealed in 1849 (coastal trade exempt until 1853). The Navigation Acts helped to establish England…
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From The Oxford Companion to British History
were intended to protect English (later British) commerce from foreign competition. They originated in Tudor times and were based on ideas usually called *mercantilist . This assumed that the volume of world trade was finite and that any gain by one country could only be at the expense of another. …
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From Encyclopedia of World Trade: From Ancient Times to the Present Full text Article Primary Documents
During the first half of the seventeenth century, the British and the Dutch competed to establish control over international trade, especially from the Far East, the Spice Islands, and India. Monopolies had been granted to both the British and Dutch East India Companies by their respective…
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