The Navigation Acts were
A) procedures instituted by the king when he chartered the Virginia Company.
B) reforms prescribed by the Virginia Company to encourage diversification of the economy.
C) regulations decreed by Massachusetts to regulate shipping safety.
D) laws passed to give English merchants a monopoly on the colonial trade.

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The Navigation Acts were a series of laws passed by the English Parliament to ensure that only English ships could carry goods to and from the colonies, effectively giving English merchants a monopoly on colonial trade.

The Navigation Acts Were