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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... Parliament. Parliament only took a direct and important role in colonial commercial affairs with passage of the Navigation Acts beginning in 1650. Even after the doctrine of parliamentary supremacy was firmly established in the Glorious ...
... 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 English (British) Empire, often limiting ...
... Parliament, which originated when Parliament agreed to grant the king a subsidy in exchange for the king's removal of an excessive toll on wool exports; and (3) royal imposts, which only emerged as a potential dispute in the seventeenth ...
... Parliament subsequently granted a subsidy equivalent to these funds. Releasing the Cabots from customs represented a major concession of the king's revenues. discovery, but would enjoy an exemption from English customs for merchandise ...
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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 |