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The British economy had begun to grow rapidly at the end of the 17th century and, by the mid-18th century, small factories in Britain were producing much more than the nation could consume. Britain found a market for their goods in the British colonies of North America, increasing her exports to that region by 360% between 1740 and 1770.
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This is a chronology and timeline of the ... 986: Norsemen settle Greenland and Bjarni Herjólfsson sights coast of North America, ... 17th century 1604: St. Croix ...
300 B.C. – Maize first grown in Eastern North America. 100 B.C. – A.D. 400 – The Hopewell tradition flourishes. 600 – Emergence of Mississippian culture. 700 – Use of the bow and arrow becomes widespread among peoples of Eastern North America. 1000 – Leif Ericson explores the east coast of North America. [1]
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In the early 17th century, English sailors had begun cutting logwood in parts of coastal Central America over which the Spanish exercised little control. By the early 18th century, a small British settlement had been established on the Belize River , though the Spanish refused to recognize British control over the region and frequently evicted ...
Voting in Provincial America: A Study of Elections in the Thirteen Colonies, 1689–1776. Greenwood Press. ISBN 9780837195438. Miller, John C. (1943). Origins of the American Revolution. Stanford University Press. ISBN 9780804705936. Osgood, Herbert L. (1904–1907). The American Colonies in the Seventeenth Century. Macmillan.