Question

Regarding the Navigation Acts (1651 and later amendments), all the following answers are true except:

	a.	All of these are true.
	b.	No commodities imported into the Empire were to be carried in any but British ships.
	c.	Only British subjects could be merchants in the colonies, and only British ships could carry commodities from one English port to another.
	d.	Commodities originating from the British Empire must be shipped in British (including colonial) ships.

Answer 1

Regarding the Navigation Acts 1651 and later amedments all of these are true.With the British Navigation Acts of 1651, the English government attempted to tighten control over trade in England and her colonies. By ruling that most imports had to arrive in England and her colonies in English ships and that exports had to leave the colonies in English ships, Parliament and Cromwell hoped to bolster the English economy, eliminate Dutch competition, and put the economic theory of mercantilism into practice