Taxation in Colonial AmericaTaxation in Colonial America examines life in the thirteen original American colonies through the revealing lens of the taxes levied on and by the colonists. Spanning the turbulent years from the founding of the Jamestown settlement to the outbreak of the American Revolution, Alvin Rabushka provides the definitive history of taxation in the colonial era, and sets it against the backdrop of enormous economic, political, and social upheaval in the colonies and Europe. |
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... Navigation Acts, Negro slave duties, the Stamp Act, and royal quitrents, an older form of property tax, and the impact of wars with Indians and the French on colonial tax burdens. Taxation in colonial America was a relatively popular ...
... Navigation Acts and other trade rules that governed Britain's commercial ties with its colonies, and the evolution of constitutional government in the colonies each affected the level and composition of colonial taxes. Each of the five ...
... Navigation Acts, required all colonial tobacco to be shipped directly to Britain. Colonial tobacco consumed in continental Europe first had to be shipped to Britain, although most of the duty was rebated on reexportation. This ...
... laws and principles that prescribes the nature, functions, and limits of a government or another institution. In most ... Navigation Acts beginning in 1650. Even after the doctrine of parliamentary supremacy was firmly established in the ...
... Navigation Acts that would be enacted in Parliament. The first Navigation Act passed by Parliament in 1650, followed by several more trade acts right up to the American Revolution, established a system of regulated trade throughout the ...
Contents
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Turmoil in EnglandGrowth in the Colonies 16071688 | 65 |
War in EuropeOpportunity in the Colonies 16881714 | 271 |
Salutary Neglect in the Colonies 17141739 | 441 |
War Debt Money and Taxes Prelude to Imperial Intervention 17391763 | 559 |
An American Tax 17631775 | 713 |
CONCLUSION | 865 |
APPENDIX | 871 |
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INDEX | 915 |