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Why were the Navigation Acts so important to the British and why did they generally alienate the colonists?

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The Navigation Acts were incredibly important to the British because they consolidated trade profits that would have otherwise gone to merchants from different countries--however they alienated the colonists because they restricted their economic freedom to trade with whomever they wanted. 
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