Identifier: storyofgreatestn09elli (find matches)
Title: The story of the greatest nations; a comprehensive history, extending from the earliest times to the present, founded on the most modern authorities, and including chronological summaries and pronouncing vocabularies for each nation; and the world's famous events, told in a series of brief sketches forming a single continuous story of history and illumined by a complete series of notable illustrations from the great historic paintings of all lands
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Ellis, Edward Sylvester, 1840-1916 Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis), 1870-1942
Subjects: World history
Publisher: New York : Niglutsch
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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The United States—The Navigation Acts ^559 the more strongly and the more obstinately, because our earlier victories in-volved the triumph of his personally hated enemies at home. The real issue between England and America rose out of the fact thatthe colonies had no voice in the choosing of Parliament. Hence Parliamentlegislated not for their benefit, but for that of the British merchants who con-trolled it. The colonies were treated merely as a source from which liinglandwas to draw profit. Vexatious laws, the Navigation Acts, controlled theshipping trade, and prevented the colonies from dealing with any country butEngland. Sometimes they could not even traffic with each other. These laws had long been evaded by wholesale smuggling, but in 1761King George determined that they should be rigorously enforced. For thatpurpose he appointed custom officers and gave them Writs of Assistance,which allowed them to force a way into any house they chose, and search forsmuggled goods. The col

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