The domestic manufacture of new machine guns that civilians could purchase was effectively banned by language in the Firearm Owners Protection Act of 1986 (also known as "McClure-Volkmer"). The language was added in an amendment from William J. Hughes and referred to as the Hughes Amendment.
It is a political cartoon my Benjamin Franklin targeting the British colonies. The letters above the snake are abbreviated names for these colonies.
Answer:
Placed restrictions on trade
Explanation:
The mercantile system of the British opposed by the colonists because it put them under restrictions. British as an Empire required wealth. British established colonies in America so that they could gain raw materials and make profits. They did not want the Americans to gain self-dependent by engaging in trading with the other Europeans nation like the Netherlands. The British put taxes on imported goods to discourage this practice, and this forced the colonists to buy only British goods. The Navigation Acts and the Sugar Act passed to regulate the colonial trade.
