The Navigation Acts Enacted by the English Parliament

question 125

Multiple Choice

The Navigation Acts enacted by the English Parliament

• A) strangled many colonial American tobacco plantations.
• B) encouraged the colonists to create an important shipbuilding industry of their own.
• C) damaged the business of New England merchants in favor of English merchants.
• D) were passed only through the vigorous political support of Virginian planters.
• E) sought to strengthen the British relationship with the Dutch.

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