The household history of the United States and its people, for young Americans . it. But the exasperation which the colonists felttoward most of their governors was a source of aliena-tion from the mother-country. All laws regulating the trade between the colonies commercial lav * = made by the and with other countries were made by the English English Pariia- Parliament. The colonies were obliged, often much against their will, to admit negro slaves, brought in by English merchants. They were forced to send nearly all their leading products to England for sale. They were not allowed to buy any
The household history of the United States and its people, for young Americans . it. But the exasperation which the colonists felttoward most of their governors was a source of aliena-tion from the mother-country. All laws regulating the trade between the colonies commercial lav * = made by the and with other countries were made by the English English Pariia- Parliament. The colonies were obliged, often much against their will, to admit negro slaves, brought in by English merchants. They were forced to send nearly all their leading products to England for sale. They were not allowed to buy any European goods, except in England, and no foreign ships were allowed to enter a port in this country. Laws were made to discourage people in the colonies from making and trading in such things as were made in England. There were English laws against the manufacture of iron-ware and woolen goods by the Americans. The colonists had many furs, and could make hats very cheaply, but no hatter was allowed to send hats from one colony to another; he 152 mSTORY OF THE VXITED Custonand sn could even be punished (or load-ing his hats on a horse to carrythem to another colony. Custom-houses were establishedby law in all the principal ports ofthe colonies, and the duties werecollected for the king. The objectof these duties was not so much therevenue derived from them, as theeffect of duties on foreign goods incompelling the colonists to buychiefly products of English manu-facture, and in enabling the officersto exclude goods not brought fromEngland. But the colonists evadedthese restrictive laws in everv way possible, and therewas a great deal of smuggling along the whole were secretly landed in the lonesome creekson Long Island or in little bays to the smuggling was done by bribing the customs col-lectors, and sometimes the governors as well. Chestsof tea were often packed in the middle of hogsheads ofsugar, and thus brought in from the West India isl
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