Sources and Documents Illustrating the American Revolution, 1764-1788, and the Formation of the Federal ConstitutionSamuel Eliot Morison |
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... proposed to raise an American fund from quit - rents on land . But it was becoming more and more difficult to collect quit- rents from the older colonies ; 2 Westerners would never have paid them . Moreover , the West had been a ...
... proposed to raise an American fund from quit - rents on land . But it was becoming more and more difficult to collect quit- rents from the older colonies ; 2 Westerners would never have paid them . Moreover , the West had been a ...
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... proposed to pay the modest sum of ten thousand pounds . The Report of 1768 was a well - thought - out document , on the basis of mercantilism . But there was a fundamental weakness in the policy that it defined . It proposed to divert ...
... proposed to pay the modest sum of ten thousand pounds . The Report of 1768 was a well - thought - out document , on the basis of mercantilism . But there was a fundamental weakness in the policy that it defined . It proposed to divert ...
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... proposed before 1776 ? Or , supposing they had been accepted as a compromise , would they have removed the causes of the conflict , and permitted colonial development toward dominion home rule , or inde- pendence by mutual consent ? 1 ...
... proposed before 1776 ? Or , supposing they had been accepted as a compromise , would they have removed the causes of the conflict , and permitted colonial development toward dominion home rule , or inde- pendence by mutual consent ? 1 ...
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... proposed for Indian scalps , which may be adequate to the dangers attending enterprizes of this nature . 7. We daily lament that numbers of our nearest and dearest relatives are still in captivity among the savage heathen , to be ...
... proposed for Indian scalps , which may be adequate to the dangers attending enterprizes of this nature . 7. We daily lament that numbers of our nearest and dearest relatives are still in captivity among the savage heathen , to be ...
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... proposed , was that any person that would offer to sustain that the Parlement of England had a right to impose or lay any tax or dutys whatsoever on the American colonys , without the consent of the inhabitants therof , should be looked ...
... proposed , was that any person that would offer to sustain that the Parlement of England had a right to impose or lay any tax or dutys whatsoever on the American colonys , without the consent of the inhabitants therof , should be looked ...
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