History A-Level
Navigation Acts
What Navigation Acts means in History A-Level, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
Definition of Navigation Acts
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Reference: Pearson Edexcel
Measures of 1651, 1660 and 1663 that reserved colonial trade to English ships and routed key goods through England, embedding mercantilism.
Topics that use Navigation Acts
- Economy, trade and empire, 1625–88 (Pearson Edexcel A-Level)
Related terms
- Banking and insurance
- East India Company
- London
- National markets
- New draperies
- Protestant refugees
- Capital investment in agriculture
- Enclosure
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