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The English Navigation Acts acts heavily taxed goods shipped in the southern colonies and countries other than England.
The English monarchy wanted to exert control over the 13 colonies and get some funds to pay the debts of war, by collecting taxes. There were many taxes in those years. But specifically, the Navigation Acts were a series of English laws that controlled shipping and trade form the English colonies to other countries, limiting the participation of foreign people in commerce with the colonies. The Navigation Acts were passed in 1663, 1673, and 1696.
