"Enumerated" goods

A) made up the bulk of items imported into the colonies from abroad.
B) were those the English colonies could not produce under the terms of the Navigation Acts.
C) created a financial drain on the English government during the seventeenth century.
D) were colonial products, such as tobacco and sugar, that first had to be sold in English ports.
E) were specifically exempt from England's mercantilist regulations.

Enumerated Goods

Specific goods listed in various laws or treaties for special regulatory or tax purposes.

Navigation Acts

were a series of laws passed by the English Parliament in the 17th century that regulated trade between England and its colonies, primarily intended to strengthen the British economy by restricting colonial trade to English ships.

Mercantilist Regulations

Economic policies and theories from the 16th to 18th centuries focusing on a nation's wealth accumulation through trade balance control, often through protective tariffs and government regulation of commerce.