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Why did England create the Navigation Acts?

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They created it to enforce mercantile policies, America was shipping goods to other countries and England wanted the goods so they decided to tighten their grasp on the colonies and force them only to trade with England.
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Answer: to promote the self-sufficiency of the British Empire by restricting colonial trade to England and decreasing dependence on foreign imported goods.

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