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= = <span style="color: rgb(42, 19, 190)"><span style="color: rgb(0, 23, 255)"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)"> The Navigation Acts started in 1600's and ended in the 1700's. It lasted about 100 hundred years. The Navigation Acts was one  <span style="color: rgb(9, 9, 11)"><span style="color: rgb(42, 19, 190)"><span style="color: rgb(0, 23, 255)">of the first of may acts that the new Americans had to deal with. The Navigation Acts restricted all the colonial trades to ships owned and manned mostly by Englishmen or British colonists. The Navigation Acts were also one of the great sources of irritationbetween Great Britain and the American colonies. The very first law of the Navigation Acts were passed in 1651 when Cromwell was master of England.


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<span style="color: rgb(20, 29, 189)">**Keeping the Dutch Away**
<span style="color: rgb(20, 29, 189)"><span style="color: rgb(17, 13, 14)"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)"><span style="color: rgb(8, 28, 181)"><span style="color: rgb(27, 35, 147)"><span style="color: rgb(12, 53, 187)">Before the Navigation Acts were passed things were out of line. Like there was decades of religious persecution. The government and the civilians of Britain were stunned with the new idea of a new settlement. This new settlement they wanted had freedom, but it was not available to Britain. they knew this task to freedom wasn't going to be easy, but they knew that it was a chance for a better life. Then when they got there parliament was in control already. The new world then decided that they wanted a change, but Britain was scared to change. Then the     <span style="color: rgb(20, 29, 189)"><span style="color: rgb(17, 13, 14)"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)"><span style="color: rgb(8, 28, 181)"><span style="color: rgb(27, 35, 147)"><span style="color: rgb(12, 53, 187)">Navigation Acts were passed by the English Parliament in the seventeenth century. This law of the Navigation Acts was also directed to the Dutch trade, which was at great power at the time.This was the rise of the Dutch carrying trade, which threatened to keep the English shipping from the seas. This was the immediate cause for the Navigation Acts of 1651. This was a major turn which caused the first Dutch War. <span style="color: rgb(81, 70, 236)">

<span style="color: rgb(81, 70, 236)"> <span style="color: rgb(26, 13, 197)">The Laws of The Navigation Acts
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<span style="color: rgb(0, 2, 255)">The First Law
<span style="color: rgb(0, 2, 255)">The first law was passed in 1651. This law was to make sure that no goods grown or manufactured in Asia, Africa, or America should be transported to England except in English vessels. It also pointed out that any goods from another European country that wanted to be transported into England had to be brought on British ships.

<span style="color: rgb(0, 2, 255)">The Second Law
<span style="color: rgb(0, 2, 255)">The second law was passed in 1660. This law is just largely embodying the first law and adding much more to this law. This second law forbade the importing or exporting from the British colonies of any goods or manufacturing except in English or British ships. It also forbade certain items like tobacco, sugar, cotton, wool, dyeing woods, and indigo.These things could be shipped to any country except England and some English plantations. This act kept getting expanded and altered as the the Navigation Acts kept on succeeding through the Navigation Acts of 1662, 1663, 1670, and 1673. Then it also passed the Act to Prevent Frauds and Abuses of 1696.

<span style="color: rgb(0, 2, 255)">The Third Law
<span style="color: rgb(0, 2, 255)">The most important thing of the third law of 1663, was that all foreign goods or manufactured goods be shipped to the American colonies through English ports. Some of the things that didn't have to be transported was fish, grain, and salt provisions because if those things were sent to the American colonies the English producer would be ruined. He would be ruined because those things were produced in England. On of the things that could be sent was rice. Rice was allowed to be shipped to all the ports in the south of Cape Finisterre. Then this lead to prohibiting the growing of tobacco in England and it kept Spanish tobacco out because of the high prices. It also kept out the Swedish iron by high taxes. Then this lead to England paying a lot for the products that they produced.

The Fourth Law
<span style="color: rgb(0, 2, 255)"> <span style="color: rgb(0, 2, 255)"> The fourth law was also known as the corn law. This law begain around 1666. This law <span style="color: rgb(0, 2, 255)">pretty much shut out the grain we made for England. Then this drove New England and <span style="color: rgb(0, 2, 255)">New York to manufacturing. This again lead England to forbid the manufacturing in the <span style="color: rgb(0, 2, 255)">colonies. Then in 1708 New York made three fourths of the wool and linen goods that was <span style="color: rgb(0, 2, 255)">used in the colony. They also did a lot of fur hats. These hats were shipped to Europe <span style="color: rgb(0, 2, 255)">and the West Indies. Then in 1732 an act forbade the exporting of hats to England or <span style="color: rgb(0, 2, 255)">any other foreign country, or from colony to colony.

<span style="color: rgb(20, 29, 189)">The End Of The Navigation Acts <span style="color: rgb(20, 29, 189)">
<span style="color: rgb(0, 15, 255)"> Parliament ended the Navigation Acts around 1750. Parliament stopped the Navigation Acts because they were starting to get out of hand. At first everything was going smooth until some complications messed everything up. After the Navigation Acts were over Parliament made a new act called the Molasses Act. This act brought molasses and sugar from the West Indies. <span style="color: rgb(20, 29, 189)">

<span style="color: rgb(20, 29, 189)">**Refrences**
G.l. Beer (1907-13); L.A. Harper, The English Navigation Laws (1039, repr. 1964); O.M Dickerson, The Navigation Acts and the American Revolution (1951, repr. 1974.)[|http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/history/A0835034.html] [|Channing Edward. A History of the United States. Vol.2. (New York: The MacMillan Company, 1926).]< [|http://www.thenagain.info/WebChron/usa/Navigation.html>][|Henry William Elson, The MacMillan Company, New York, 1904]< [|http://www.usahistory.info/i/us-history.jpg>]