The navigation acts were designed to promote british trade with the colonies at the expense of colonial trade with the french and spanish. this practice best exhibits

Bacon Rebellion" was mainly caused by. economic hardship and distrusted of Virginia colonists who were unable to acquire land. The Navigation Acts were designed to promoted British trade with the colonies at the expense of colonial trade with the French and Spanish. This practice best exhibits. mercantilism.

They were constantly being overlooked as a people and were being controlled by people who weren't really native to their homeland.