These laws were designed to ensure a favorable trade agreement with the colonies. the goal was to keep england's own colonies from competing with their mother country. question 8 options:

The Navigation Acts

The Navigation Acts were passed in 1651 to stop trade between the British colonies and competing European countries such as France and The Netherlands.

The Navigation Acts were passed by Great Britain to limited all trade to and from the colonies to English vessels. With all trade limited to English vessels, the colonies were unable to trade goods with any other country. Though this law was put into place in 1651 it was not always enforced. Especially after the turn of the 18th century. The colonies went through a period of neglect until the French-Indian (Seven Years') War. The period allowed the colonies to build  their own trade leaving the Navigation Acts primarily ignored until the Revolutionary Period.

the answer to your question is a because laws act as guidelines as to what is accepted in society. without it there would be conflicts between social groups and communities. it serves as a norm of conduct for citizens.

a causal relation between two events exists if the occurrence of the first causes the other. the first event is called the cause and the second event is called the effect. a correlation between two variables does not imply causation.

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