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The navigation acts were so important to the British because it was made to restrict colonial trade which alienated the colonists the navigation acts then led to smuggling goods in and out of the colonies and they would

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The navigation acts were so important to the British because they put restrictions on how the colonies spent their money. These acts restricted colonial trade and

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The Navigation Laws were significantly important to the British because  it regulated the mercantilism system and made the British wealthy off the colonist. The Navigation Laws allowed the mercantile system to survive to further benefit their mother country.

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The Navigation act was essential to the British because  it was a way   that they had control of colonists and it gave them income, this resulted in alienating the colonist for their own benefits. The mother country, New England, passed laws like the Navigation act and the Sugar Act to maintain the mercantilism economy. The colonists smuggling to trade with the other european countries, thus resulting in england losing income, their solution was to isolate the colonies.

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The importance of the Navigation Acts to the British stemmed from them wanting to

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The Navigation acts were important to the British because it helped them control mercantilism, because it restricted colonial trade. The fact that they weren't able to trade between the French and the Spanish showed control by the British towards the colonists, which later led to rebellious acts from the colonists such as smuggling of goods

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Pablo Escobar, Queen Linda, & Nate the Great

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Pablo Escobar, Queen Linda, & Nate the Great

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The idea of Mercantilism is to have a beneficial system of trade to make profit as evidenced by the British wanting all trade for themselves and to put an end to smuggling.

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The navigation acts were so important to the British because they were laws passed by them to restrict colonial trade, and this would lead to the alienation of colonists since it started rebellion and corruption in the colonies. We know this is important since colonists would smuggle illegal goods with the French, Dutch, and Spain, which made them distant from the English as they would do stuff behind their backs. Smugglers would actually pay tribes to British customs officials who were hired to regulate trade in the colonies.

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The Navigation acts were greatly important to the British because British mercantilists believed that having wealth was power and they were able to control what was being traded. These acts alienated the colonists because their welfare was being sacrificed for British commercial interests. The British were deliberately selfish and oppressive.

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The Navigation Acts were so important to the British because that was how they were controlling the amount of money they made from the colonists and what they spent it on as well and they generally alienated the colonists due to the restriction of not being able to buy or transport good s with other countries. The reason the British were controlling the money of the colonists and where they put there money at because that was their way of making more money than other countries. Also, the reason the colonists felt alienated was due to the fact that the Mother Country only wanted good to be transported on only British ships and to be exported to their land first so they could get more of the profits

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Mercantilism is an economic system where a mother country prospers at the expense of its colonies as evidenced by the Navigation Acts and the smuggling that occurred in the colonies. The Navigation acts prove that England wanted to prosper at the expense of the colonies because, under the Navigation acts, the colonists could only trade with Britain, even though it might be cheaper for the colonists to do business with the French or Dutch. The smuggling serves as evidence that mercantilism only serves the mother country because if the colonies were content, then there would be no smuggling