Read the excerpt and answer the question below. “. . . from thence forward, no goods or commodities whatsoever shall be imported into or exported out of any lands . . . in any other . . . ships or . . . vessels whatsoever, but in such ships or vessels as do truly and without fraud belong only to the people of England . . . or are built of and belonging to any of the lands and whereof the master and three fourths of the mariners at least are English.”
-Source: Navigation Acts, September 1660
Which of the following contributed most directly to the enactment of the law in the excerpt?
Choose 1
Choose 1

(Choice A, Checked)
A
the economic theory that colonies existed to enrich the mother country

(Choice B)
B
the discovery of precious metals in the New England and Middle colonies

(Choice C)
C
the impressment of American sailors during the Napoleonic Wars

(Choice D)
D
the expansion of the British navy during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I
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