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  1. For much of the 17th century, Barbados was a far more powerful economic engine than Virginia or Massachusetts. The English conquest of Jamaica in 1655 set the conditions for an even more economically dynamic model.

  2. Other seventeenth-century Anglo-American economies varied somewhat from these two early models. The Hudson River settlements, founded by the Dutch in 1613 and captured by the English in 1664, early centered on the fur trade but also developed a significant agricultural base.

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    • In 1774, colonial Americans had the highest standard of living on earth. AVG. ANNUAL INCOME. £13.85. According to historian Alice Hansen Jones, Americans at the end of the colonial era averaged an annual income of £13.85, which was the highest in the western world.
    • The average tax rate in colonial America was between 1 and 1.5% U.S. TAX RATE. 1-1.5% Colonial and Early Americans paid a very low tax rate, both by modern and contemporary standards.
    • The Depression of the 1780s was as bad as the Great Depression. Between 1774 and 1789, the American economy (GDP per capita) shrank by close to 30 percent.
    • The US’s largest European trading partners in the late 1790s were the German city-states of Hamburg and Bremen. American trade with the Hanseatic city-states of Hamburg and Bremen boomed with upon the outbreak of the Napoleonic Wars.
  4. At the start of the seventeenth century, the English had not established a permanent settlement in the Americas. Over the next century, however, they outpaced their rivals. The English encouraged emigration far more than the Spanish, French, or Dutch.

  5. The British tried to weaken the American economy with a blockade of all ports, but with 90% of the people in farming, and only 10% in cities, the American economy proved resilient and able to support a sustained war, which lasted from 1775 to 1783.

  6. Dec 31, 2001 · This study is of the North American colonial economy from the middle of the seventeenth century to the American Revolution, with emphasis on the later years.

  7. A Christian enterprise, a blow against Spain, an economic stimulus, and a social safety valve all beckoned the English toward a commitment to colonization. This noble rhetoric veiled the coarse economic motives that brought England to the New World.

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