produced for export ended up on English ' bors of Spain, France, and Holland..With the the Acts of Trade and Navigation: These: | ’ the following: THE NAVIGATION ACTS By the mid-1600s, the American colonies were fulfilling their mercan- tilist role, at least partially, eee orted to England large amounts o! eeeaals and steclan— art furs, fish, and tobacco, In addition, the men and. women of the colonies were good customers for manu- factured English goods such as wooden furni- ture, iron iutensils, books, and china. Howevei, not all the products the colonists . docks. Some of the colonists’ sturdy lumber’ and strong tobacco made its way into the har- nations of Europe clamoring for their goods, . many colonial merchants could not resist th potential for further wealth. England viewed these actions as an €co--" nomic threat, According to. mercantilist the-’ ory, any wealth flowing from the colonies to’. another nation came at the expense of th home country. As a result, beginning in 165: England's Parliament, the country’s legisla- tive body, moved to tighten control of colonial’. | trade by passing a series of measures known as ~ Navigation Acts, as they were called, ordered ;