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3: List three ways in which the Navigation Acts helped England.

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At the same time the mother country compelled English merchants to buy tobacco from the American colonies only. These laws were known as Navigation Acts. Their purpose was to regulate the trade of the empire and to enable the mother country to derive a profit from the colonies which had been planted overseas. The Navigation Acts were a series of laws passed by the British Parliament that ... for control of maritime trade routes—such as the Anglo-Dutch Wars
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The Navigation Acts, while enriching Britain, caused resentment in the colonies and were a major contributing factor to the American Revolution. The Acts required all of a colony's imports to be either bought from England or resold by English merchants in England, regardless of what price could be obtained elsewhere.

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