The Navigation Acts also controlled colonial imports. For example, the Staple Act of 1663 required colonial imports to be

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The Navigation Acts also controlled colonial imports. For example, the Staple Act of 1663 required colonial imports to be carried by English ships only. Read this passage from the Staple Act that explains the purpose of the law: For... keeping [the colonies] in firmer dependence upon [England], and rendering them yet more beneficial and advantageous to [England]. firmer: stronger or greater rendering: making beneficial: helpful 
Based on the text above, what were two goals of this law? 
to punish the colonies for disobeying English laws 
to increase competition between England and the colonies 
to allow England to benefit more from the colonies 
to make the colonies rely more heavily on England

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