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University of Illinois
University of Illinois: Early American Trade With China: Global Economy, 1775 [Pdf]
A PDF of a global map of the world economy in 1775.
University of Illinois
University of Illinois: Early American Trade With China: Getting Rich in the China Trade [Pdf]
The early China trade was a small but important part of the developing economy of the United States. Trade with China provided opportunities for great profits although it also carried great risk.Merchants who engaged in trade with China...
University of Illinois
University of Illinois: Early American Trade With China: American Ideas About Trade [Pdf]
American businessmen in the late 18th and 19th centuries were very interested in finding markets all over the world for their goods and actively pursuing opportunities for foreign trade. The young nation needed to earn money to pay back...
University of Illinois
University of Illinois: Early Trade With China: Early American Trade Routes to China [Pdf]
Once the colonies gained their independence, American ships began to search the oceansfor markets to replace the British colonial markets from which they were now excluded (theWest Indies) or in which they were subjected to heavy tax...
University of Illinois
University of Illinois: Early American Trade With China: Log of the Empress of China [Pdf]
The following are excerpts from logs of the Empress of China, the first American ship to sail toChina after American independence. The ship left New York on February 22, 1784 and reached Canton on August 28. All excerpts are taken from...
University of Illinois
University of Illinois: Early American Trade With China: John Swift's Letter Home [Pdf]
The American ship Empress of China left New York on February 22, 1784 and arrived in Canton, China six months later on August 18. John White Swift, the ship's purser, wrote the following letter to his father in Philadelphia in July,...
University of Groningen
American History: Outlines: Colonial Economy
Whatever early colonial prosperity there was resulted from trapping and trading in furs. In addition, the fishing industry was a primary source of wealth in Massachusetts. But throughout the colonies, people relied primarily on small...
University of Groningen
American History: Outlines: Colonization
For a variety of reasons, those who came to settle the early colonies sought a new homeland. Puritans, for example, established several settlements in Massachusetts. These English colonists were a pious, self-disciplined people who...
University of Groningen
American History: Outlines: The Colonial Period
The early settlers to the New World began to map strategy for their own system of government. This site details that strategy and what kinds of events spawned the idea of representative government.
University of Notre Dame
Department of Special Collections: The Coins of Colonial and Early America
This site provides links to a variety of coins used in the colonies and in the confederation. Extremely detailed.
University of Groningen
American History: Outlines: Economic Growth and Stability
Overview of the early 20th Century, post-depression era period of economic growth and stability brought about by Keynesian economics and the New Deal.
Internet History Sourcebooks Project
Fordham University: Modern History Sourcebook: Coffee Fazenda of Brazil 1911
The Modern History Sourcebook provides this great look at what life would be like on a coffee plantation during the early 20th century. It describes the houses, life on the plantation, colonists, and harvests.
Other
All the News? American Revolution & Maryland's Press
Explore this collection of digitized historical newspapers and broadsides from the 1760s about pre-Revolutionary topics. Requires Adobe Reader.
Library of Congress
Loc: Teachers: Child Labor in America
Historical photographs provide students with a firsthand look at the issue of child labor during the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. In this lesson plan, students will use photographs to further understanding of the...