The Navigation Acts enacted by the English Parliament
A) strangled many colonial American tobacco plantations.
B) encouraged the colonists to create an important shipbuilding industry of their own.
C) damaged the business of New England merchants in favor of English merchants.
D) were passed only through the vigorous political support of Virginian planters.
E) sought to strengthen the British relationship with the Dutch.

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The Navigation Acts encouraged the colonists to develop their own shipbuilding industry because they required all trade to and from the colonies to be carried out on English or colonial ships, thus increasing the demand for ships within the colonies.

The Navigation Acts Enacted by the English Parliament