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The non-enumerated articles, which included almost every colonial product of any great importance, were excluded from the English markets, and, after 1766, even from the markets of France, Holland, and the Scandinavian countries. Such a policy of exclusion, however, did not within itself seriously injure the industrial progress of the colonists. They merely traded with the West Indies and southern Europe instead of with the mother country. They were injured, however, when the English government required them to import their European goods from England and their rum, molasses, and sugar from the English plantations in the West Indies. The first requirement often compelled the colonial ship captain, after unloading a cargo of non-enumerated articles in southern Europe, to sail to England for a load of colonial imports, or to return home with an empty hold. The second requirement cut off the supply of money from the foreign West India islands, which the colonists had used to buy manufactured goods from England.

The non-enumerated articles, which included almost every colonial product of any great importance, were excluded from the English markets, and, after 1766, even from the markets of France, Holland, and the Scandinavian countries. Such a policy of exclusion, however, did not within itself seriously injure the industrial progress of the colonists. They merely traded with the West Indies and southern Europe instead of with the mother country. They were injured, however, when the English government required them to import their European goods from England and their rum, molasses, and sugar from the English plantations in the West Indies. The first requirement often compelled the colonial ship captain, after unloading a cargo of non-enumerated articles in southern Europe, to sail to England for a load of colonial imports, or to return home with an empty hold. The second requirement cut off the supply of money from the foreign West India islands, which the colonists had used to buy manufactured goods from England.

==See Also==

==See also==

* [[Navigation Acts]]

* [[Navigation Acts]]

* [[Stamp Act]]

* [[Stamp Act]]

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