Navigation Act of 1651 targeting Dutch shipping

Target entity: Navigation Act of 1651 targeting Dutch shipping
Context triple: [Navigation Acts, significantEvent, Navigation Act of 1651 targeting Dutch shipping]

• A. Anglo-Dutch Wars
  The Anglo-Dutch Wars were a series of 17th- and early 18th-century naval conflicts between England (later Great Britain) and the Dutch Republic over trade dominance and maritime supremacy.
• B. British naval blockade of Europe
  The British naval blockade of Europe was a Royal Navy strategy during the Napoleonic Wars that aimed to strangle French trade and weaken Napoleon’s empire by controlling maritime access to the European continent.
• C. Embargo Act of 1807
  The Embargo Act of 1807 was a U.S. law signed by President Thomas Jefferson that halted American exports in an attempt to pressure Britain and France during the Napoleonic Wars, but instead severely damaged the U.S. economy and provoked widespread opposition.
• D. British salt monopoly
  The British salt monopoly was a colonial policy in India that granted the British government exclusive control over the production and sale of salt, heavily taxing this essential commodity and sparking widespread resistance such as Gandhi’s Salt March.
• E. Tea Act
  The Tea Act was a 1773 British law granting the East India Company a monopoly on tea sales in the American colonies, helping spark colonial resistance that led to the American Revolution.
• F. None of above. chosen
• G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

Target entity: Navigation Act of 1651 targeting Dutch shipping
Target entity description: The Navigation Act of 1651 targeting Dutch shipping was an English mercantilist law designed to restrict foreign, especially Dutch, access to English trade and maritime commerce in order to bolster England’s own shipping and economic power.

• A. Anglo-Dutch Wars
  The Anglo-Dutch Wars were a series of 17th- and early 18th-century naval conflicts between England (later Great Britain) and the Dutch Republic over trade dominance and maritime supremacy.
• B. British naval blockade of Europe
  The British naval blockade of Europe was a Royal Navy strategy during the Napoleonic Wars that aimed to strangle French trade and weaken Napoleon’s empire by controlling maritime access to the European continent.
• C. Embargo Act of 1807
  The Embargo Act of 1807 was a U.S. law signed by President Thomas Jefferson that halted American exports in an attempt to pressure Britain and France during the Napoleonic Wars, but instead severely damaged the U.S. economy and provoked widespread opposition.
• D. British salt monopoly
  The British salt monopoly was a colonial policy in India that granted the British government exclusive control over the production and sale of salt, heavily taxing this essential commodity and sparking widespread resistance such as Gandhi’s Salt March.
• E. Tea Act
  The Tea Act was a 1773 British law granting the East India Company a monopoly on tea sales in the American colonies, helping spark colonial resistance that led to the American Revolution.
• F. None of above. chosen