The English Navigation Acts in the 1660s were meant to
a. confine trade within its colonies to English ships and cargoes.
b. restrict the English shipping industry.
c. put a tariff on English goods.
d. restrict the English slave trade.
e. encourage free trade.
ANSWER:
a
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