Sources and Documents Illustrating the American Revolution, 1764-1788, and the Formation of the Federal ConstitutionSamuel Eliot Morison |
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... never been enforced ; and one of the principal objections to the Revenue Act was its imposition of a lower but still onerous duty on such molasses.1 ' The Act of Navigation is a good Act , so are all that exclude foreign manufactures ...
... never been enforced ; and one of the principal objections to the Revenue Act was its imposition of a lower but still onerous duty on such molasses.1 ' The Act of Navigation is a good Act , so are all that exclude foreign manufactures ...
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... never broken ' with William Penn.1 The Boys ' then marched on Philadelphia , with the intention of putting more refugees to the hatchet , and were only dissuaded from their purpose by the Assembly adopting their demands as to scalp ...
... never broken ' with William Penn.1 The Boys ' then marched on Philadelphia , with the intention of putting more refugees to the hatchet , and were only dissuaded from their purpose by the Assembly adopting their demands as to scalp ...
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... never have paid them . Moreover , the West had been a disappointment from the mercantile viewpoint . English fur imports fell off instead of increasing with the conquest of Canada . This was partly due to the French and Spanish , who ...
... never have paid them . Moreover , the West had been a disappointment from the mercantile viewpoint . English fur imports fell off instead of increasing with the conquest of Canada . This was partly due to the French and Spanish , who ...
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... never obtained its coveted grant . Not improbably its defeat was due in part to the influence of Virginians like George Washing- ton , Richard Henry Lee , and Patrick Henry , who had rival plans regarding the twenty million acres on the ...
... never obtained its coveted grant . Not improbably its defeat was due in part to the influence of Virginians like George Washing- ton , Richard Henry Lee , and Patrick Henry , who had rival plans regarding the twenty million acres on the ...
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... never can be completely solved as long as the United States retains its agreeable diversity of races and sectional interests.1 III . The Crisis , 1772-6 . Constitutional calm , as we have seen , succeeded the agitation of 1767-70 . Yet ...
... never can be completely solved as long as the United States retains its agreeable diversity of races and sectional interests.1 III . The Crisis , 1772-6 . Constitutional calm , as we have seen , succeeded the agitation of 1767-70 . Yet ...
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