1660 - Commerce
Commerce
A Second Navigation Act adopted by Parliament October 1 declares that certain "enumerated articles" from England's American colonies may be exported only to the British Isles. Included are tobacco, sugar, wool, indigo, and apples. The list will be amended to include rice, molasses, and other articles, and Virginia tobacco prices take a precipitous drop as transport bottlenecks delay shipments, producing widespread economic distress and political unrest in the colony.
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