The 1660 Act cannot carry the whole explanation for the American Revolution. Each statute contributed to the dispute and answered a particular stage of Dutch or later French competition. Slow communications gave the mainland colonies practical independence from the beginning. Many settlers also built communities around religious expectations that differed from those evolving in Britain. The accumulated divergence offers a stronger causal explanation than treating one law as an automatic revolutionary trigger.
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The Revolution cannot be traced to one Navigation Act
Successive Acts answered changing Dutch and French competition while distance and religious settlement allowed the colonies to develop along a separate path.