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Navigation Acts - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The English Navigation Acts were a series of laws which restricted the use of foreign shipping for trade between England (after 1707 Great Britain) and its colonies, which started in 1651. At their ...
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Colonial South and the Chesapeake - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
During the colonization of the new world, the southern American colonies and the Chesapeake provided England with much needed money and resources. However, the culture of the south was far different t...
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My school starts in 2 days, and I've been reading ... D) The colonists could not build or export products that directly competed with British export products; E) Colonial enumerated goods could only be sold in Englan...
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1. All trade had to be on English or colonial ships; 2. Enumerated products (tobacco, sugar, indigo, cotton, etc.) could be shipped only to England or another English colony; 3. Certain English-made goods (gunpowder, silk) were subsidized to undercut European competitors;
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And, finally, certain colonial products "enumerated" in the laws must be exported to England and England only. In the seventeenth century, the only enumerated products were tobacco, sugar, cotton, and other tropical commodities grown only in the West Indies.
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Since those initial sponsors were overwhelmingly English merchants, colonial ironmakers had little say where the products they made would go. The English government played little part in the organization or development of the colonies or their economies prior to 1660. ... Iron very early became one of the enumerated products.
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