After the American Revolution, Americans successfully got their independence from Britain, doing so, opened up the world of trading for them. While the colonies were under British rule, the Navigation Acts were enforced, which were a set of laws that restricted colonial trade. In the North in 1785, the economic status of the representatives in the six colonial legislatures went from 36% wealthy to 12% wealthy, the well-to-do representatives went from 47% to 26%, only 17% of the Northern representatives were moderate but in 1785 it rose to 62% were moderate (Doc.4). The economic statues of the representatives in the North shows that people became more acceptive of having other people with different economic statues to be in the law-making