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Where can I find a comprehensive collection of all American Founding Fathers' writings?
I was taught in school that the Founding Fathers of America were very prolific and that they produced many documents during their time, including books, pamphlets, magazines, letters, diaries, etc. ...
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How colonialism have been done right (benevolently)? [closed]
The British Empire (& Europeans, Arabs etc.) colonised many countries but the colonial experience, advertised as a "westernizing the backward people for their own good" masked the ...
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Did other British colonies at the time have seats in parliament [duplicate]
I know the American colonies didn’t have a seat, but what about the other British colonies. Did some have it. Like Australia, and the places in Africa.
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What were the rules of the migration to the Louisiana Territory in USA?
To my best knowledge, at the point of Louisiana Purchase, the area was inhabited mostly by Native Americans. At the time there existed some legislation regarding how the settlement should look like. ...
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To what extent has the United States become (in 1870) the nation that it originally set out to be? [closed]
I was thinking about this for a while. I know that the US never intended to abolish slavery at that time, but it still happened. Is that even relevant?
Some of the things I thought that they ...
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Did the Governor of Virginia in 1786 have the authority to veto laws passed by the Virginia General Assembly?
I believe that the Act for Establishing Religious Freedom was passed by the Virginia General Assembly on January 16, 1786. Did the Governor of Virginia at the time have the right to veto it?
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Was there any distinction between the 13 Colonies and the Canadian provinces prior to the American Revolution?
Was there any distinction between the 13 Colonies that became the United States and the Canadian colonies/provinces prior to the American Revolution? For example, did New Brunswick and New Hampshire ...
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What is the origin of straight municipal boundary line in NJ?
If you look at a map of the municipal borders of New Jersey, you see a clear line mid-state running northwest to southeast. It's about halfway between NYC and Philadelphia. What is the historical ...
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Would colonial Maryland have been tolerant to all religions?
I have heard that Maryland was the birthplace of religious freedom in the US because it was founded by a charter about which Wikipedia says "On 20 June 1632, (King) Charles granted the original ...
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Did the United States colonize California?
Upper California was a province of Mexico from the 1820s to the 1840s (sometimes unified with Lower California). Near the end of this period it was overrun with Anglo-American men that lived apart ...
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What was the most significant change Americans experienced during the 1830s? [closed]
What would you say was the most striking or best-remembered change for people living in the United States were experiencing during the 1830s, that were different from those of most other eras? I'm not ...
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What were the most important causes of the 1692 Salem Witchcraft Trials?
Basically what the title says: what were the most important causes of the 1692 Salem Witchcraft Trials?
We are having a discussion over this topic in one of my history courses, and a classmate ...
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What was the purpose behind Charles II's charter for Connecticut squatter settlements?
In my US History book, the text reads the following:
As a slap at Massachusetts, Charles II gave rival Connecticut in 1662 a sea-to-sea charter grant, which legalized the squatter settlements.
I ...
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Who were the chief executives of the United States in the thirteen years before George Washington? [duplicate]
Fully thirteen years passed after the Declaration of Independence before George Washington became President—first under Congress, then under the Articles of Confederation. It's a famous trivia fact ...
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How long would it take to travel from England to the colonies in the early 1700s?
I am working on a history project for school and cannot seem to find information on the length of a journey on a ship from England to the Charleston area of South Carolina in the early 1700s (1730-...
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Thirteen "colonies", "provinces", "states", etc.?
One often hears of "the thirteen colonies", and of course the colonies were also called "provinces". Were they also sometimes called "states" before the Continental Congress convened?
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How much would votes sell for in early America?
I am reading an essay by Alfred F. Young right now in which the author mentions that Gouverneur Morris said of enfranchising those without property:
Give the vote to people who have no property and ...
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Why was slavery profitable in the Southern colonies and not New England?
Why didn't Colonists in New England import massive numbers of Slaves?
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How did Pocahontas die?
The Wikipedia says the following about the death of Pocahantas:
In March 1617, Rolfe and Pocahontas boarded a ship to return to
Virginia; the ship had only sailed as far as Gravesend on the river
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Why were the Thirteen Colonies more successful, both economically and socially, than other colonies? [closed]
The Thirteen Colonies had an incredibly rocky start, running out of food and surrounded by Indian tribes which were not pacified until much later. Yet 200 years later, the population in the colonies ...
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How many acres per person were needed for the early American settlers vs. the native Americans?
Clearly the lifestyle of the native peoples of North America was less intensive than that of the European settlers and thus required more land per person. However, theirs was not exclusively a hunter-...
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Were there interstate tariffs before the US Constitution (1789)?
I've heard many times that the Commerce Clause of the US Constitution was (in part) designed to end tariffs between the thirteen states. Now that I'm trying to learn about those tariffs, I'm having a ...
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What coin denominations were used in the US before Dollars and Cents?
In Thomas Jefferson's proposal for a decimal currency, he describes the status quo as:
The [cent] will differ little from the copper of the four Eastern
States, which is 1/108 of a dollar; still ...
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