British North American mercantile system and colonial commerce (1660–1776)

1. Restoration-era Navigation Act strengthens colonial trade controls

   Sep 13, 1660Labels: Navigation Act, English Parliament

   • Navigation Acts
   • Britannica

2. Staple Act requires many imports to pass England

   Jul 27, 1663Labels: Staple Act, English ports

   • Navigation Acts
   • Britannica texts

3. Plantation Duty Act targets intercolonial shipping

   Jan 1, 1673Labels: Plantation Duty, enumerated goods

   • Adams Papers
   • Britannica

4. Navigation Act enforcement strengthened after 1696 reforms

   Jan 1, 1696Labels: Navigation Acts, customs enforcement

   • Britannica
   • MassHist

5. Wool Act restricts colonial wool exports and trade

   May 4, 1699Labels: Wool Act, colonial wool

   • Statutes Realm
   • Wool Act

6. Hat Act limits colonial hatmaking competition

   Jun 1, 1732Labels: Hat Act, colonial hatmaking

   • Britannica
   • Hat Act

7. Molasses Act taxes non-British West Indies imports

   May 17, 1733Labels: Molasses Act, Caribbean planters

   • Britannica
   • Cambridge JEH

8. Iron Act encourages raw iron exports, restricts processing

   Apr 12, 1750Labels: Iron Act, colonial iron

   • Iron Act
   • Act excerpt

9. Sugar Act tightens customs and reshapes molasses duties

   Apr 5, 1764Labels: Sugar Act, customs reform

   • Sugar Act
   • Britannica

10. Currency Act expands limits on colonial paper money

    Apr 19, 1764Labels: Currency Act, paper money

    • Britannica
    • Cleveland Fed

11. Stamp Act introduces direct internal tax on colonists

    Mar 22, 1765Labels: Stamp Act, revenue stamps

    • Gilder Lehrman
    • Britannica

12. Townshend Acts expand customs system and new import duties

    Jun 15, 1767Labels: Townshend Acts, Board of

    • Britannica
    • Townshend Acts

13. Tea Act favors East India Company tea sales

    May 10, 1773Labels: Tea Act, East India

    • Tea Act
    • Britannica

14. Boston Tea Party destroys taxed tea shipment

    Dec 16, 1773Labels: Boston Tea, Boston activists

    • Britannica
    • Boston Tea Party

15. Boston Port Act closes key colonial harbor

    Mar 31, 1774Labels: Boston Port, Boston Harbor

    • History com
    • Boston Port Act

16. Continental Association organizes an empire-wide boycott

    Oct 20, 1774Labels: Continental Association, First Continental

    • Founders Archives
    • Continental Assoc

17. Independence breaks Britain’s colonial mercantile system

    Jul 4, 1776Labels: Declaration of, American independence

    • National Archives
    • Britannica