Beginning in the 1650s, Parliament tried to prohibit foreign goods and vessels from colonial ports and to channel colonial raw materials to England through the

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The Navigation Acts were a series of laws passed by the English Parliament in the 1650s that aimed to restrict the use of foreign shipping for trade between England (later Great Britain) and its colonies, which was intended to give a monopoly to British merchants and shipbuilders.

Beginning in the 1650s, Parliament Tried to Prohibit Foreign Goods