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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... Customs House Figure 19.2. Interior View, Yorktown Customs House Figure 19.3. Interior View, Yorktown Customs House Figure 24.1. Colonial America, 1763 Figure 24.2. Obelisk Erected on the Boston Common in Celebration of Repeal of the ...
... customs records housed in the port of New London, Connecticut, which were destroyed when the town was burned to the ground by British forces under the command of Benedict Arnold during the Revolutionary War. War, weather, fire, and age ...
... customs, conventions, precedents, and clearly established forms of procedure that define the functions of, and relationships between, the Crown, Parliament, and other institutions of government and the British people. The establishment ...
... customs of all and singular they shall bring with them from those places so newly found.” The king also granted John Cabot and his sons7 the license to restrict visits of other English subjects to lands that the Cabots had discovered ...
... customs, payments by merchants to the Crown for protection from numerous tolls and charges at the hands of lords and local port authorities; (2) subsidies granted by Parliament, which originated when Parliament agreed to grant the king ...
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 |