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The Hat Act 1731 is a former Act of the Parliament of Great Britain (5 Geo. 2. c. 22) enacted in 1732 to prevent and control hat production by the colonists in British America. It specifically placed limits on the manufacture, sale, and exportation of colonial-made hats.
In 1732 an act forbade the exporting of hats to England, to foreign countries, or from one colony to another. It also limited the number of persons a maker of hats might employ. Iron was found in all the colonies, and forges and furnaces were established in many placcs.
28 sty 2019 · As described below, the Navigation Acts of 1651 would be re-instituted and subsequently strengthened in 1660, 1663, 1673, 1696, and 1733 with the Molasses Act (otherwise known as the Revenue Act of 1733). By 1700, the English merchant fleet rivaled the size of its Dutch competitors.
Hat Act, (1732), in U.S. colonial history, British law restricting colonial manufacture and export of hats in direct competition with English hatmakers. Part of the mercantile system that subordinated the colonies economically, the Hat Act forbade exportation of hats from the colonies, limited apprenticeships, and, to preclude competition from ...
25 wrz 2024 · The 1699 Woolen Act and the 1732 Hat Act prohibited the export and intercolonial sales of certain textiles and colonial-made hats. The 1733 Molasses Act, a Navigation Act, was designed to protect West Indian planters and merchants and imposed a high tax on molasses imported to the colonies from non-British ports.
British hat manufacturers procured an Act in 1732, for example, which restrained the production of hatware in the American colonies so that it should not pose a threat to their own enterprise in Britain.
8 sty 2022 · 1732 — Hat Act and Debt Recovery Act. The Hat Act placed restrictions on American hat manufacturers that reduced the number of hats they could produce. It also forced fur traders to sell more of their beaver skins to Britain.
