Territorial and economic expansion prior to Civil War

  • The Navigation Act

    Restricted colonial trade to ships constructed in England or English America which carried a crew at least 75 percent Englishor Anglo-American.
  • Act of Union

    The Act of Unionunited Scotland and England under one Parliment in 1707, a workable administrative framework for Anglo-American trade was in place, fostering the growth of a dynamic eighteenth century empire of goods that benefited both Britian and her North Amercan colonies.
  • The Stamp Act

    Passed by the British Parliment. The new tax was imposed on all American colonists and required them to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper they used. Ship's papers, legal documents, licenses, newspapers, other publications, and even playing cards were taxed.
  • Change to an Industrial economy

    As population growth, forgein trade, and general economic expansion grew it allowed the colonies to sustain themselves and that's when the new economy of colonial. America grew and started.
  • The Economics of War

    There was the discovery of gold for a short period of time they changed to gold for currency and then the North and the South resorted to paper currency.
  • Seperation

    By the 1850's, the shift in the balance of political power toward the more populated North and the growth of the new anti-slavery Republican Party, had made slaveholders and Southern politicians afraid for their place in the Union and for the future of slavery.
  • Revenue Act

    raised taxes while the government sold bonds to the general public and the newly founded Federal Reserve.
  • Economy Act 1932

    Orded the agency to place orders for goods and services with another federal agency or a major organizational unit of an agency.