The Birth of America- From Before Columbus to the Revolution
Not only the homesteaders disobeyed the royal proclamation. Mer- chants, plantation owners, members of the assemblies, and even ...
Greed for land had begun at Jamestown; active solicitation for land grants under a sort of partnership that was to grow into the ...
Dinwiddie gave grants of tens of thousands of acres to his friends. But title to such assignments could not be “proved” without ...
and very rich meadows, one of which, I believe, was nearly four miles in length, and considerably wide in some places.” Excited ...
ment should have welcomed their venture; after all, the government would find it easier to work with a coherent organization on ...
conflicting interests. Along the coastal plain, a plantation economy was already well advanced. The families who dominated it we ...
what today we call “hard” as distinct from “soft” currency, their newly built houses and newly plowed land were sold, often to f ...
ganda, Husband and his colleagues campaigned for control of the state assembly. They got thirty-eight of their members elected b ...
first time in American history, authorized an attorney general to proscribe anyone who refused to appear in court. By that time, ...
chapter 14 Production and Commerce H ow the colonists earned a living; what resources they learned to exploit; how they organize ...
food. This incentive produced such a dramatic improvement not only in production but in morale that a program of granting 50-acr ...
fusion and were so large that they had to be cut in several pieces before they could be swallowed. On land, the small group of “ ...
We hear from towns on the Cape that the whole fishery among them has failed much this winter, as it has done for several winters ...
to yield roughly 25 percent return on investment, and it flourished until the outbreak of the Revolution. Tobacco, rice, and ind ...
The colonial economies were growing so rapidly from about 1650 to 1750 that, despite the organization and exploitation of indent ...
lect those things in commercial quantities; convey them to the West Indies; and trade them. This process involved about two-thir ...
reserve to themselves, and have prevailed upon the legislature to prevent their establishment in the colonies, sometimes by high ...
sugar, cotton, and indigo, which they returned to France. That trip might take almost three times as long as the American and Br ...
attempts to confine them, colonists were smuggling goods abroad by the beginning of the eighteenth century, if not earlier, even ...
captain could be fairly certain that if he were taken to court, he was unlikely to be convicted by a jury of fellow Americans. J ...
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