Enumerated goods were specific colonial products, such as tobacco and sugar, that were required by the Navigation Acts to be shipped first to England or English colonies, rather than directly to foreign markets. This policy aimed to ensure that England benefited from the trade of these valuable commodities.

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"Enumerated" Goods

Question 22

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"Enumerated" goods:

A) made up the bulk of items imported into the colonies from abroad.
B) were those the English colonies could not produce under the terms of the Navigation Acts.
C) created a financial drain on the English government during the seventeenth century.
D) were colonial products, such as tobacco and sugar, that first had to be imported to England.

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