Title: Navigation Acts | Infoplease
Headings: Navigation Acts
Navigation Acts
Content: The legislation had an unfavorable effect on the Channel Islands, Scotland (before the Act of Union of 1707), and especially Ireland, by excluding them from a preferential position within the system. Shaken by the American Revolution, the system, along with mercantilism, fell into decline. The acts were finally repealed in 1849. See studies by G. L. Beer (1907–13); L. A. Harper, The English Navigation Laws (1939, repr. 1964); O. M. Dickerson, The Navigation Acts and the American Revolution (1951, repr. 1974). The Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, 6th ed. Copyright © 2012, Columbia University Press.