1st Edition

Trade and Commerce

By Linda Jacobs Altman Copyright 2008
    96 Pages
    by Routledge

    98 Pages
    by Routledge

    Explores the complex financial underpinnings of both settlement and ultimately rebellion.

    Chapter One: Trade and Economic Development; The Idea of Ownership; The Lure of Gold; Coinage; Barter; Commodity Money; Representative Money; Fiat Money; Taxation and Trade; Features:; The Seven Cities of Cibola; The Value of Wampum; Chapter Two: The Colonizing Nations; Spain in the Americas; France in the Americas; Traders and Trappers; New Netherlands and New Amsterdam; Buying Manhattan; The Last Director General; Features:; The Landing of Columbus; The Encomeinda System; In Defense of the Indians (journal); Chapter Three: The Early English Colonies; Settling Jamestown; Money Troubles; John Rolfe and the Devil's Weed; A Matter of Vision; The Plymouth Colony; Features:; Tobacco; The Banishment of Roger Williams; Chapter Four: Maritime Trade; Trade with the West Indies; Cash Crops in the South; Labor and the Plantations; Slave Trade; Triangle Trade; Piracy; Features:; Eliza's Indigo; A Cargo Manifest; Blackbeard the Pirate (biography); Chapter Five: Economic Life; Transportation; Slave Trading Between Plantations; Native American Trading Practices; The World of Work; Shopkeepers and Businessmen; Features:; Paul Revere (biography); An Apprentice's Tale; River Barges; Chapter Six: The Road to Revolution; Navigation Acts; French and Indian War; Stamp Act; Townshend Act; Tea Act; Boston Tea Party; Intolerable Acts; Currency; Commerce and The Constitution; Capitalism; Features:; Benjamin Franklin (biography); Adam Smith (biography); Timeline; Glossary.

    Biography

    Linda Jacobs Altman