In 1651 the first English Navigation Act:
a. required the Royal Navy to use only Protestant navigators on its ships.
b. aimed to wrest control of world trade from the Dutch.
c. freed England's North American colonies from economic regulations (to stimulate prosperity).
added New Netherland to the British empire.
d. authorized several mapmaking expeditions to the New World.
Ans: b. aimed to wrest control of world trade from the Dutch.
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