English Navigation Acts

Examples of English Navigation Acts in the following topics:

• Enforcing the Navigation Acts

  • The English Navigation Acts were a series of laws restricting imports and exports in the British colonies for the ultimate profit of England.
  • The English Navigation Acts, which were passed in the 17th and 18th centuries, restricted foreign trade by England's colonies.
  • The major impetuses for the Navigation Acts were the ruinous deterioration of English trade in the aftermath of the Seven Years' War and the opening of trade between the Spanish Empire and the Dutch Republic.
  • The Navigation Act was first passed in October of 1651 by Parliament, led by Oliver Cromwell.
  • Oliver Cromwell led Parliament in passing the first Navigation Act  in 1651.

• Navigation Acts

  • A series of Acts, known as the English Navigation Acts, restricted foreign shipment for trade between Great Britain and its colonies.
  • The English Navigation Acts were a series of laws that restricted use of foreign shipping for trade between England and its colonies.
  • The Navigation Acts enriched Britain, but caused resentment in the colonies and contributed to the American Revolution.
  • The Navigation Acts required all of a colony's imports to be either bought from England or resold by English merchants in England, no matter what price could be obtained elsewhere.
  • Navigation Acts lead to conflict between the British and the Dutch

• The Expansion of England's Empire

  • The English, and later the British, were among the most important colonizers of the Americas.
  • A number of English colonies were established under a system of independent Proprietary Governors, who were appointed under mercantile charters to English joint stock companies to found and run settlements.
  • Most notable among these was the Virginia Company, which created the first successful English settlement at Jamestown and the second at St.
  • With New Netherland, the English also came to control the former New Sweden (in what is now Delaware), which the Dutch had conquered earlier.
  • The Act provided for the subjects of the new state to "have full freedom and intercourse of trade and navigation to and from any port or place within the said united kingdom and the Dominions and Plantations thereunto belonging. " While the Treaty of Union also provided for the winding up of the Scottish African and Indian Company, it made no such provision for the English companies or colonies.

• Colonies in Crisis

  • Andros, commissioned governor of New England in 1686, had earned the enmity of the local populace by enforcing the restrictive Navigation Acts, denying the validity of existing land titles, restricting town meetings, and appointing unpopular regular officers to lead colonial militia, among other actions that were part of an attempt to bring the colonies under the closer control of the crown.
  • Royal authority was not restored until 1691, when English troops and a new governor were sent to New York.

• The British Empire

  • This led to the gradual decline of Spanish influence in the New World and the widening of English imperial interests.
  • As an English privateer/pirate, he collected riches from French ships.
  • Sir Francis Drake was an English sea captain, privateer, navigator, slaver, and politician .
  • Henry Hudson was an English sea explorer and navigator in the early 17th century.
  • Sir Francis Drake was an English sea captain, privateer, navigator, slaver, and politician.

• The Mercantalist System

  • Throughout the 17th and 18th centuries, the Parliament of England passed the Navigation Acts to increase the profit England derived from its colonies.
  • Among the provisions, the Acts required that any colonial imports or exports travel only on ships registered in England.
  • The Navigation Acts expelled foreign merchants from England's domestic trade.
  • Many colonists resented the Navigation Acts because they increased regulation and reduced their opportunities for profit, while England profited from colonial work.

• The Dominion of New England

  • The Dominion of New England in North America was an administrative union of English colonies, including the territories of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, the Plymouth Colony, the Province of New Hampshire, the Province of Maine, and the Narragansett Country (present-day Washington County, Rhode Island).
  • Following the English Restoration in 1660, King Charles II sought to streamline the administration of the colonial territories and began a process that brought a number of the colonies under direct crown control.
  • The specific objectives of the Dominion included the regulation of trade, an increase in religious freedoms, reformation of land title practices to conform more to English methods and practices, coordination on matters of defense, and a streamlining of the administration into fewer centers.
  • He also enforced the Navigation Acts, laws that restricted New England trade.
  • With the birth of his son and potential successor James III in June 1688, factions of English conspired with the Dutch prince to replace James with his Protestant son-in-law, William of Orange.

• Settling the Middle Colonies

  • In the 1660s, the English largely conquered this land, renaming the area New York after the Duke of York, James II.
  • James II later granted the land between the Hudson River and the Delaware River to two friends who had been loyal to him through the English Civil War.
  • As a proprietary colony, Penn governed Pennsylvania, yet its citizens were still subject to the English crown and laws.
  • Broad navigable rivers like the Susquehanna, the Delaware, and the Hudson attracted diverse business, and New York and Philadelphia became important ports.
  • Compare the culture of the Middle Colonies with that of other English colonies

• Maryland

  • Maryland was established in 1632 as a haven for English Roman Catholics in the New World.
  • The province began as a proprietary colony of the English Lord Baltimore and as a haven for English Roman Catholics in the New World.
  • In 1649, Maryland passed the Maryland Toleration Act, also known as the Act Concerning Religion, a law mandating religious tolerance for Christians.
  • From 1644 to 1646, the "Plundering Time" was a period of civil unrest caused by the tensions of the English Civil War (1641–1651).
  • In 1654, after the Third English Civil War (1649–1651), Puritan rebels briefly seized control of the province.

• The Immigration Act of 1965

  • The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 (also known as the Hart-Celler Act) changed the nation's laws regulating immigration.
  • The Act abolished the National Origins Formula, which had been in place since the Immigration Act of 1924.
  • To convince people of the legislation's merits, the act's proponents asserted that the act would not significantly influence American culture.
  • However, debate continues to wage between ideas of assimilation (that immigrants should adopt white, English-speaking American   culture), multiculturalism (the idea that groups should retain their distinctive identities and pursue political representation as groups), the economic impact of immigration, the impact of illegal immigration, and the role of languages other than English in public life.
  • The act would profoundly alter the nation's demographics.