What is the correct definition of Navigation Acts?

• a ruling that stopped the supply of enslaved people to the colonies
• a series of laws that benefited England's economy
• a series of laws that restricted trade between the colonies
• a system designed to allow English ships to travel farther

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The correct definition of the Navigation Acts is: a series of laws that benefited England's economy. These laws were intended to ensure that trade with the colonies was conducted in a way that favored England, by restricting certain goods to be carried only by English ships and requiring colonial trade to pass through English ports.

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