Sources and Documents Illustrating the American Revolution, 1764-1788, and the Formation of the Federal ConstitutionSamuel Eliot Morison |
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... purpose , to provide revenue , and to tighten the mercantile system by strengthening the Acts of Trade and Navigation . Since the seventeenth century the colonists had not objected to the mercantile system as such . Scattered through ...
... purpose , to provide revenue , and to tighten the mercantile system by strengthening the Acts of Trade and Navigation . Since the seventeenth century the colonists had not objected to the mercantile system as such . Scattered through ...
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... purposes , was the point See documents printed in Callender , Selections from Economic History , chapter iii , and pp . 122-35 ; and G. L. Beer , op . cit . , chapter xiii . 2 Rights of the British Colonies ( 1764 ) , 55. Cf. Burke , op ...
... purposes , was the point See documents printed in Callender , Selections from Economic History , chapter iii , and pp . 122-35 ; and G. L. Beer , op . cit . , chapter xiii . 2 Rights of the British Colonies ( 1764 ) , 55. Cf. Burke , op ...
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... purpose of defence , and directing Indian relations . These had been dangerously mis- managed by individual colonies . This effort came to naught through colonial particularism.1 But the British Government , 1 G. L. Beer , British ...
... purpose of defence , and directing Indian relations . These had been dangerously mis- managed by individual colonies . This effort came to naught through colonial particularism.1 But the British Government , 1 G. L. Beer , British ...
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... purpose by the Assembly adopting their demands as to scalp bounties ( p . 13 ) . The Pennsylvania frontiersmen joined the revolutionary move- ment in order to democratize Pennsylvania ( in which they succeeded - see pp . 162-76 ) , as ...
... purpose by the Assembly adopting their demands as to scalp bounties ( p . 13 ) . The Pennsylvania frontiersmen joined the revolutionary move- ment in order to democratize Pennsylvania ( in which they succeeded - see pp . 162-76 ) , as ...
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... purposes of education ( p . 206 ) has provided many of the western States with valuable school funds . Hostile Indians , and other causes , so delayed the surveys under this Ordinance that no land was placed on sale by the Confederation ...
... purposes of education ( p . 206 ) has provided many of the western States with valuable school funds . Hostile Indians , and other causes , so delayed the surveys under this Ordinance that no land was placed on sale by the Confederation ...
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