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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Sugar act. (search)
Sugar act.
The popular name of an act of the British Parliament, officially known as the molasses act. In 1733 the British government laid a prohibitive duty on all sugar and molasses imported into North America from the islands of France, for the purpose of compelling the people of New England particularly to purchase their sugar and molasses from the planters in the English West Indies.
In 1763, when Lord Grenville became prime minister, he introduced into Parliament two measures of vast importance to the American colonists.
The first was the revival of the old molasses act; the second was the notorious Stamp act (q. v.). The immediate effects of the reinforcement of the molasses act were seen in the trade relations between the New England colonies and the French West Indies.
The New England people depended largely upon the products of their fisheries, and a considerable portion found a ready market in the French West Indies.
Those possessions in turn depended upon the m
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Tazewell , Littleton Waller 1774 -1860 (search)
Tazewell, Littleton Waller 1774-1860
Legislator; born in Williamsburg, Va., Dec. 17, 1774; graduated at William and Mary College in 1792; admitted to the bar in 1796; member of Congress in 1800-2; member of the commission to treat with Spain for the purchase of Florida in 1819; member of the United States Senate in 1824-33; and was chosen governor of Virginia in 1834.
In 1840 he was the candidate for the Vice-Presidency on the ticket with James G. Birney.
He died in Norfolk, Va., March 6, 1860.
To-mo-chi-chi, 1642-
Creek chief; born in Georgia about 1642; met Oglethorpe in Savannah in friendly conference early in 1733.
He was then ninety-one years old, of commanding person and grave demeanor, and though for some reason he had been banished from the Lower Creeks, he had great influence throughout the confederacy as a brave chief and wise sachem.
Mary Musgrave, the half-breed wife of a South Carolina trader, acted as interpreter.
He pledged his unwavering friendship for the English, and he kept his word.
A satisfactory treaty was made, by which the English obtained sovereignty over the domain between the Savannah and Altamaha rivers, and westward as far as the extent of their tide-waters.
Oglethorpe distributed presents among the friendly Indians.
In the spring of 1734 To-mo-chi-chi went with Oglethorpe to England.
He was accompanied by his wife, their adopted son and nephew, and five chiefs.
They were cordially received in England, and were objects of great cur
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Ulloa , Antonio de 1716 - (search)
Ulloa, Antonio de 1716-
Naval officer; born in Seville, Jan. 12, 1716; entered the Spanish navy in 1733 and became lieutenant in 1735; came to the United States as governor of Louisiana in 1766, but was forced to leave because he failed to win over the colonists to Spain.
He had command of a fleet which was sent to the Azores, with sealed orders to proceed to Havana and join an expedition against Florida.
He neglected to open his orders and was tried by court-martial in 1780, and acquitted.
He died on the island of Leon, July 3, 1795.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Vaudreuil , Louis Philippe de Rigaud 1698 -1764 (search)
Weiser, Conrad 1696-
Pioneer; born in Germany in 1696; emigrated to New York in 1729; removed to Pennsylvania in 1733.
Through his influence with the Six Nations on the one hand, and the colonial governments of Pennsylvania, New York, Maryland, Virginia, and Carolina, on the other, he succeeded in deferring the alliance between the French and the Indians until the American colonists had grown strong enough to successfully defend themselves.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Wheelock , Eleazar 1711 -1779 (search)
Wheelock, Eleazar 1711-1779
Educator; born in Windham, Conn., April 22, 1711; graduated at Yale College in 1733; was pastor of a Congregational church at Lebanon, Conn., in 1735, and remained there thirty-five years. He opened a school there in 1754, in which was a bright Indian pupil, Samson Occum.
His proficiency led to the establishment of Moore's Indian School, which eventually became Dartmouth College, of which Dr. Wheelock was the first president.
He died in Hanover, N. H., April 24, 1779.