Question

Why didn't americans protest the navigation acts?

Answer 1

The reason why Americans didn't protest the navigation acts is  : the acts never enforced during the war so they rarely ever taught about them
When an act is never enforced, the people will not directly feel the effect , so it's understandable why  they did not do a protest

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Answer 2

Basically, the Acts restricted who the colonists could trade with and what products they could trade. The Navigation Acts were an attempt to put the theory of Mercantilism into practice in the British colonies. The object ofmercantilism was to minimize imports that cost the nation money, and maximize exports that made the nation money. Colonies were a means of reducing England's dependence on foreign nations. Each colony would provide a raw material to England and this would allow the nation to not have to purchase that product from another nation. By establishing colonies loyal to the Crown, Great Britain would be expanding a dependable market for the finished products coming out of British industries. The Navigation Acts required that all colonial trade be carried in vessels built and owned by English or colonial merchants. The ships had to be manned by crews composed of British seamen.