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title: "What was the purpose of the Navigation Acts?"  
description: "What was the purpose of the Navigation Acts?"  
author: "Richardson hayes"  
published: 2018-05-26  
canonical: https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/43106/what-was-the-purpose-of-the-navigation-acts  
category: "history, politics & society"  
tags: ["usa history"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# What was the purpose of the Navigation Acts?

What was the [purpose](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/51345/what-was-the-purpose-of-grandfather-clauses) of the [Navigation](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/42010/who-benefited-the-most-from-the-navigation-acts-passed-by-britain-in-the-1660s) Acts?


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