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 * REGINAWhat were the Navigation Acts and how did it help Mercantilism?**From 1650 on, England instituted a series of laws of trade and navigation known as the Navigation Acts. Their purpose was to limit colonial trade to the British only. In order to accomplish this, all trade between colonists and the British was to be conducted on either English vessels or colonial-built vessels. If colonists intended to trade with any other nations, all goods had first to be shipped to England, giving her an opportunity to handle them and collect revenue from taxation. In addition, there were certain products that could be traded only with Britain, such as tobacco, sugar and cotton. As time went on, the list of enumerated goods grew -- continually decreasing merchandise that the colonists could sell to other nations. In keeping with the general policy of mercantilism, England encouraged the colonists to specialize in the production of raw materials. English factories converted raw goods to products which were then shipped back to the colonies. This provided the British with a profitable market, free from competition. In order to discourage manufacturing, regulations governed certain industries that would have been competitive with the British, such as the woolen-garment industry, hat making, and the iron industry. Meeting domestic needs was permissible within the regulations; they were intended mainly to prevent exports. Even though many of these restrictions were on the books, they did not cause havoc to the North American colonists, as was the case with those in the Spanish and Portuguese colonies. In fact, there were many advantages that the colonists received from this system, such as having a built-in market for their raw products. Also, trade regulations were not rigidly enforced.

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 * Did it cause the american revolution?**
 * Mercantilism** was a **cause** of frequent European wars in that time but policy changes **did** not follow in either's lifetime, even in Britain. i think it was the main cause of the american revolution.

The Navigation Acts were acts of Parliament between 1651 and 1847 designed primarily to expand British trade and limit trade by British colonies with countries that were rivals of Great Britain. []


 * Salutary neglect** was an undocumented, though long-standing, [|British] policy of avoiding strict enforcement of parliamentary laws, meant to keep the [|American colonies] obedient to [|Great Britain]. Prime Minister [|Robert Walpole] stated that "If no restrictions were placed on the colonies, they would flourish".[|[][|1][[[|http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salutary_neglect#cite_note-0]|]]] This policy, which lasted from about 1607 to 1763, allowed the enforcement of trade relations laws to be lenient. Walpole did not believe in enforcing the [|Navigation Acts], established under [|Oliver Cromwell] and [|Charles II] and designed to force the colonists to trade only with England, Scotland and Ireland,which were also under Britain's control. Successive British governments ended this policy through acts such as the [|Stamp Act] and [|Sugar Act], causing tensions within the colonies. [|www.wikipedia.org]

The regulation of **economic** activities in **the colonies**, then, centered around the **...** However, the **British** were more lax in governing their **colonies.** I believe itdid cause the american revolution because the colonist didn’t agree with what they wrere saying so it started the revolution. [|www.landandfreedom.org/ushistory/us3.htm]
 * Why did Britain attempt to enforce mercantilism and other economic policies in the 13 colonies following the French and Indian War? ** With the culmination of the French and Indian War in 1763, the British were victors in the world struggle for commercial supremacy and their policies of mercantilism changed. Now they began to enforce their mercantilist policies, which led to intensified animosity between the English and their colonies. Having tasted economic independence for too long a period, the American colonists had no desire to return to the mercantilist policies endured by the colonies of other European nations. []
 * how did the british economic policy of mercantilism affect the colonists **