Prior to the passage of the Navigation Acts: a. the colonies traded more with the Dutch than with England. b. the declining commercial success of the colonial enterprise forced parliament to undertake different measures to make them profitable. c. all colonial goods had to pass through England before being sold on the continent. d. colonial trade was heavily regulated by the British. e. colonial governments except that of Virginia operated largely independently of the crown.
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