An American history . Sihrer Crowns oSpanifli milled Pieces of 8. - -« - - o 7 6| 17 6OthergoodcoinedSpan. Silver^ ftr Ounce o S 6 The Pixtportion of Gold to Silvetf !o£H^atidntZ% d : 1:: O : 15 I Ounce Troy of Gold (2» Car.)is worth Sterling ^, ^ 178rOunce Sterling Silver, 05a S o7 6,>7 PAGE FROM POOR RICHARDS AL-MANAC Showing money in use in eighteenthcentury. 144 AMERICAN HISTORY used in whatever way might profit Englishmen. After fiftyyears of this pohcy it is not strange that the Americans werebeginning to resent it. In 1750 there were not yet many opensigns of discontent. Nevertheless
An American history . Sihrer Crowns oSpanifli milled Pieces of 8. - -« - - o 7 6| 17 6OthergoodcoinedSpan. Silver^ ftr Ounce o S 6 The Pixtportion of Gold to Silvetf !o£H^atidntZ% d : 1:: O : 15 I Ounce Troy of Gold (2» Car.)is worth Sterling ^, ^ 178rOunce Sterling Silver, 05a S o7 6,>7 PAGE FROM POOR RICHARDS AL-MANAC Showing money in use in eighteenthcentury. 144 AMERICAN HISTORY used in whatever way might profit Englishmen. After fiftyyears of this pohcy it is not strange that the Americans werebeginning to resent it. In 1750 there were not yet many opensigns of discontent. Nevertheless, all through the centurythere had been frequent bickerings between the coloniallegislatures and the royal governors. In spite of Parliamentthe Americans insisted that they were entitled to all the rightsof Englishmen and that if the Bill of Rights did not apply tothe colonies (section 157) it ought to. 217. American Politicians. In a word, all this resolute andprosperous America had a chip on its shoulder. It was. 1 r r i^* ^ Ci til ^ 4!«^i^^£a| THE PALACE AT NEW BERNEResidence of the Royal Governor of North Carolina. tired of being treated as the mere ward of England. Americansin 1750 were thinking again of their grandfathers and great-grandfathers and of the old idea that they were subjectsof the king of England but not of a Parliament to which theysent no representatives. And most of them were eager politi-cians. Having no opportunity to take part in the governmentof the empire, they made up for that deprivation by taking agreat interest in local affairs. In every colony there was onehouse of the legislature to which Americans could be , except in Connecticut, and Rhode Island,^ thispopular house was opposed by a governor sent out from In 1776 these two still elected their Kovernors. Maryland, Pennsylvania,and Delaware were proprietary colonies. The rest were royal had been transformed into a province in 1752. MIDDLE OF THE EIGHTEENT
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