Sources and Documents Illustrating the American Revolution, 1764-1788, and the Formation of the Federal ConstitutionSamuel Eliot Morison |
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... Trade and Plantations on the Western Problem . The Acts of Trade and Navigation . Instructions by the Commissioners of the Customs in America , February 1769 . 54 62 74 The Regulator Movement in North Carolina . Petition of a Frontier ...
... Trade and Plantations on the Western Problem . The Acts of Trade and Navigation . Instructions by the Commissioners of the Customs in America , February 1769 . 54 62 74 The Regulator Movement in North Carolina . Petition of a Frontier ...
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... Trade and Navigation Acts , 22-29 August ( Madison ) Constitution of the United States , 17 September 1787 Gouverneur Morris to Washington , 30 October 1787 Selections from Debates in the Virginia Ratifying Conven- tion , June 1788 ...
... Trade and Navigation Acts , 22-29 August ( Madison ) Constitution of the United States , 17 September 1787 Gouverneur Morris to Washington , 30 October 1787 Selections from Debates in the Virginia Ratifying Conven- tion , June 1788 ...
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... trade of the entire empire . Nor is it true that the prohibition of direct trade with continental Europe had been complained 1 This is argued in G. L. Beer , British Colonial Policy , 1754-65 , and E. I. McCormac , Colonial Opposition ...
... trade of the entire empire . Nor is it true that the prohibition of direct trade with continental Europe had been complained 1 This is argued in G. L. Beer , British Colonial Policy , 1754-65 , and E. I. McCormac , Colonial Opposition ...
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... trade , which were now closed . The Molasses Act of 1733 , imposing a prohibitory duty on . molasses entering the English colonies from the foreign West Indies , had never been enforced ; and one of the principal objections to the ...
... trade , which were now closed . The Molasses Act of 1733 , imposing a prohibitory duty on . molasses entering the English colonies from the foreign West Indies , had never been enforced ; and one of the principal objections to the ...
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... trade regulation , as in the Revenue Act ; and it touched the pride or interest of all classes in every colony , save Nova Scotia , which showed an abnormal docility . Virginia led off with Henry's speech ( of which ascending versions ...
... trade regulation , as in the Revenue Act ; and it touched the pride or interest of all classes in every colony , save Nova Scotia , which showed an abnormal docility . Virginia led off with Henry's speech ( of which ascending versions ...
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