The Navigation Acts primarily benefited
A)colonial American tobacco plantations.
B)British business and merchants.
C)New England merchants.
D)Virginian planters.
E)business and planters in the British Caribbean.

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The Navigation Acts were designed to regulate colonial trade and enabled England to collect duties (taxes) and benefit British merchants and businesses by ensuring that trade with the colonies was conducted using English or colonial ships.

The Navigation Acts Primarily Benefited