Why Did Inventors and Sailors Develop Better Tools for Navigation?
Compasses, Which Indicate Direction Relative to the Earth’s Magnetic Poles, Are Used in Navigation on Land, at Sea, and in the Air. Compasses Were Being Used...
Navigation Acts prevented the colonies from shipping any goods anywhere without first stopping in an English port to have their cargoes loaded and unloaded; resulting in providing work for English dockworkers, stevedores, and longshoremen; and also an opportunity to regulate and tax, what was being shipped.
These laws were known as Navigation Acts. Their purpose was to regulate the trade of the empire and to enable the mother country to derive a profit from the colonies which had been planted overseas.
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