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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... King James II by William and Mary of the Netherlands' House of Orange, known in England as the Glorious Revolution of 1688. These years were a period of rapid growth in the colonies and chronic turmoil in England. The second is 1688 to ...
... King William and Queen Mary of Orange, the new Protestant rulers of England in 1689, defeated the forces of the ousted Catholic king James II in Ireland in a battle that began on July 1, 1690. The battle is recalled each year in the ...
... King Henry VII granted letters patent to John Cabot and his three sons, Lewis, Sebastian, and Sancius, for the discovery of new and unknown Land Tenure in the American Colonies A fter William the. 1In 1494 Portugal and Spain negotiated ...
... king. The legitimacy of property titles rested on the legitimacy of the Crown, constrained after 1215 by the Magna Carta. All subsidiary tenures were held “of the king.” In medieval times the king granted land under varying conditions ...
... king, a corporation, or proprietorship chartered by the king. Quitrents became fixed and certain, replacing all other feudal obligations. Land held in free and common socage could be sold, devised by will, and inherited without any ...
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 |