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Navigation Acts
The Navigation Acts were a series of English laws from the mid-seventeenth century that restricted colonial trade to English ships and English ports. Aimed in large part at Dutch commercial dominance, they were a cornerstone of English mercantilism. They helped build the shipping, trade and fiscal base on which the early British Empire grew.
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- The Epoch Institute. (2026). Navigation Acts. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/navigation-acts
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- “Navigation Acts.” The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia, The Epoch Institute, 2026, https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/navigation-acts. Accessed .
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- The Epoch Institute. “Navigation Acts.” The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. 2026. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/navigation-acts.
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- The Epoch Institute (2026) ‘Navigation Acts’, The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. Available at: https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/navigation-acts (Accessed: ).
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