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Identifier: homegeographyofn00stra (find matches)
Title: A home geography of New York city
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Straubenmuller, Gustave
Subjects: New York (N.Y.) -- Description and travel New York (N.Y.) -- History
Publisher: Boston, New York (etc) Ginn & company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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Xew York and Boston Mail Coach (1789) was not a pleasant one. People who liked the sea could come fromPhiladelphia to New York by water. The sailing vessels carriedfreight and passengers, and if the weather were fine they madethe trip in three days. The berths were not very comfortable, andthe passengers supplied their own food. The journey by land was made on horseback, in a private carriage,or in the stagecoach. Travelers ate and slept at inns and taverns.All roads were bad, and very few of the inns or taverns were good;the meals were poor, and sometimes five or six people were obligedto sleep in one room. Rivers and bays were crossed in rowboats,flatboats, or sailboats.
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o 170 CHAPTER XXXVII TROUBLE WITH ENGLAND The Stamp Act In 1765 the English king, George III, needed a large sum ofmoney, and he decided to raise this money by taxing the colonists.The surest and easiest way for a government to collect money is bymeans of a stamp tax, so King George had the English governmentpass a law called the Stamp Act. If the Stamp Act had been obeyed, the people would have beenforced to pay a stamp tax on many articles bought and sold. Somestamps cost a penny and some cost ten pounds in English money.The law required all newspapers, almanacs, and pamphlets to beprinted on stamped paper, and also required a stamp on every kindof business paper or law paper. If a father bought a newspaper, he would have had to pay for thenewspaper and also for the stamp on it. When he paid his rent hewould ha\e had to pay for the stamp on the receipt. When he paida bill he would have had to pay for the stamp on the bill. The people in the thirteen colonies united and decided that

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