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The excerpts below are from the Navigation Acts of 1651.
[A]fter the first day of December, one thousand six hundred fifty and one, and from thence forwards, no goods or commodities whatsoever of the growth, production or manufacture of Asia, Africa or America, or of any part thereof; or of any islands belonging to them, or which are described or laid down in the usual maps or cards of those places, as well of the English plantations as others, shall be imported or brought into this Commonwealth of England, or into Ireland, or any other lands, islands, plantations, or territories to this Commonwealth belonging, or in their possession, in any other ship or ships, vessel or vessels whatsoever, but only in such as do truly and without fraud belong only to the people of this Commonwealth, or the plantations thereof, as the proprietors or right owners thereof; and whereof the master and mariners are also of the people of this Commonwealth, under the penalty of the forfeiture and loss of all the goods that shall be imported contrary to this act, , , ,
[N]o goods or commodities of the growth, production, or manufacture of Europe, or of any part thereof, shall after the first day of December, one thousand six hundred fifty and one, be imported or brought into this Commonwealth of England, or any other lands or territories to this Commonwealth belonging, or in their possession, in any ship or ships, vessel or vessels whatsoever, but in such as do truly and without fraud belong only to the people of this Commonwealth, and in no other, except only such foreign ships and vessels as do truly and properly belong to the people of that country or place, of which the said goods are the growth, production or manufacture.
Which of the following was the desired outcome of the above legislation by the Rump Parliament of England in 1651?

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  1. To prevent the Dutch from establishing colonies in North America
  2. To encourage the development of domestic industries in England by limiting the import of foreign goods
  3. To foster economic cooperation between England and its colonies by encouraging trade between them
  4. To secure England's hold on the fur trade with the Native Americans
  5. To strengthen England's naval power by forcing all maritime trade to be conducted in English ships
  6. To reclaim domination of the slave trade from Portugal in order to meet the growing need for slaves for sugar plantations in the English Caribbean colonies
  7. To extricate the French from the Atlantic sea trade as well as the cod and whaling industries which at this time were dominated by the French
  8. To establish a monopoly for England over the spice trade with Asia
  9. To prevent England's colonies from being bombarded with cheap goods manufactured by their mainland European competitors
  10. To end Dutch domination of maritime trade by limiting their ability to move goods between England and her colonies as well as goods to and from England from other countries

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