American business: colonial era and new republic.

The Wilderness Road was the major route for more than 200,000 people migrating west, at about the time the United States wascoming into being.

The whiskey tax was the United States’ first internal federal tax, and it was promoted to Congress as a “sin” tax; it thus served as the precedent for similar taxes in future years.

In addition to being the first U.S. president and commanding general of the Revolutionary War, Washington was one of the richest men in the American colonies on the eve of the American Revolution.

The Townshend Act interfered with colonial commerce and led to a change in colonists’ consumption habits and colonial merchants’ purchasing.

The passing of the act, coupled with the maintenance of the three-pence American tea tax...

The Stamp Act was effectively resisted and had little direct effect on American business.

The North American colonies’ first regularly scheduled stagecoach line helped New Jersey residents market their products, provided a vital link on the route between New York City and Philadelphia...

Slave trading across the Atlantic Ocean provided revenue for northern ports in American colonies and a labor source for plantations in the American South.

Slaves constituted a valuable kind of private property that could be traded or used to provide labor, usually at less cost than hiring free labor.

Shays’s Rebellion revealed the conflicting interests of farmers in rural areas and merchants along the coast of the new United States.

Initially, the royal charters provided support for early North American colonial farms and businesses, but later, monarchs used the charter’s powers to impose taxes and regulations on the colonists...

The war established the United States as a sovereign nation, allowing it to set up its own system of taxation and trade.

Penn was the founder and owner of the colony of Pennsylvania.