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The Navigation Act In The 1790s
and they all could have been avoided. The Navigation Acts of 1660 happened, the French and Indian War, Pontiac's Rebellion and Proclamation of 1763 May 1st, The Sugar Act, The Stamp Act, Declaratory Act, The Boston Massacre, The Boston Tea Party, Intolerable Acts, and The Townshend Act.Paragraph 2 Body (The Navigation Act)The Navigation Act included the british with 3 requirements. Between 1650 and 1696 the british parliament passed a series of Navigation Acts limiting colonial trade by using the system of mercantilism. 1.Its forbidding certain items from being traded with colonists.2.Colonist have to use english ships to transport goods.
3.What colonists trade they go through english ports.The colonists protested against all of this. But
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They can make them anytime and in any cases. Colonists boycott this. This was known as American Colonies Act. The declaratory was passed in mid March in 1766. It was hard at first to try to pass the act. The colonies repealed the stamp act. William Pitt became famous and was in the streets for being a praised deliver.
Paragraph 8 (The Boston Massacre) :1767People where throwing snowballs at the colonists. They where also throwing rocks to make them mad. So the people charged into the colonists and one fired. That one bullet killed 5 people. They called this the “Boston Massacre”. The colonists got away with the murder of 5 deaths. John Adams was the only one that would stand up and help the colonists. This event was called the “Boston Massacre’.
Paragraph 9 (The Boston Tea Party) :1770This act was passed. The colonist tea cost more. The british was cheaper. Not many people bought colonist tea. They thought it was just too expensive. The colonists were forced to buy tea from the british. The colonists protest by dumping it all in the boston harbor. This act was called the “Boston Tea Party.Paragraph 10 (The Intolerable

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