Examples of import in the following topics:
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- As Europeans developed a taste for tea in the 17th century, rival companies were formed to import the product from China.
- In England, Parliament gave the East India Company a monopoly on the importation of tea in 1698.
- Until 1767, the East India Company paid a tax of about 25% on tea that it imported into Great Britain.
- Boston was the largest colonial importer of legal tea; smugglers still dominated the market in New York and Philadelphia.
- The Tea Act retained the three pence Townshend duty on tea imported to the colonies.
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- The goal of these movements was to make the colonies less dependent on British imports and other goods.
- In the countryside, while Patriots supported the non-importation movements of 1765 and 1769, the Daughters of Liberty continued to support American resistance.
- Nonconsumption agreements were protests organized by American colonists in 1774 in opposition to new import duties that were placed on the colonists by Charles Townshend, known as the Townshend Acts.
- These duties taxed items that were frequently imported to the colonies from Britain, including tea, paint, paper, and glass.
- These import duties were birthed from the Intolerable Acts that Britain passed in the wake of the Boston Tea Party the previous year, which protested high taxes against tea and other products.
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- The Tariff Act taxed all imports at rates from 5 to 15 percent.
- When the Act was passed, it included a provision that allowed for a 10 percent discount on all items imported on American ships.
- The culmination came with the Tariff of 1828, ridiculed by free traders as the "Tariff of Abominations," with import custom duties averaging more than 25 percent.
- They would have to pay more for imports while getting less for the cotton they sold abroad.
- Faced with a reduced market for goods and pressured by British abolitionists, the British reduced their imports of cotton from the United States, which weakened the Southern economy even more.
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- A wide array of regulations was put in place to encourage exports and discourage imports, thereby increasing the nation's profit.
- The government protected its merchants—and kept others out—through trade barriers, regulations, and subsidies to domestic industries in order to maximize exports from and minimize imports into the realm.
- A tariff was placed on imports and a bounty given for exports, while the export of some raw materials was banned completely.
- Among the provisions, the Acts required that any colonial imports or exports travel only on ships registered in England.
- The colonies could not import anything manufactured outside of England unless the goods were first taken to England, where taxes were paid.
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- The major goal of the tariff was to protect industries in the northern United States which were being driven out of business by low-priced imported goods by putting a tax on them.
- Calhoun and other southerners joined them in crafting a tariff bill that would also weigh heavily on materials imported by the New England states.
- New England importers and ship owners also had reason to oppose provisions targeting their industries—provisions inserted by Democratic Party legislators to coerce New Englanders to sink the legislation.
- The Democratic Party had miscalculated: despite the insertion of import duties by Democrats calculated to be unpalatable to New England industries, most specifically on raw wool imports, essential to the wool textile industry, the New Englanders failed to sink the legislation, and their plan backfired.
- Faced with a reduced market for goods and pressured by British abolitionists, the British reduced their imports of cotton from the United States, which weakened the southern economy even more.
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- No European countries formally acknowledged the Confederacy, preferring Northern grain imports and abolitionism to Southern cotton imports.
- They risked losing the large quantities of food imported from the North if they went to war with the United States to gain Southern cotton.
- Cotton diplomacy proved a failure as Europe had a surplus of cotton, while the 1860–62 crop failures in Europe made the North's grain exports of critical importance.
- It was said that "King Corn was more powerful than King Cotton," as U.S. grain went from a quarter of the British import trade to almost half.
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- Americans now could quickly produce larger amounts of goods for a nationwide, and sometimes an international, market and rely less on foreign imports than in colonial times.
- As American dependency on imports from Europe decreased, the importance of internal commerce increased dramatically.
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- Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau were important leaders of the Transcendentalist movement.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson(May 25, 1803 – April 27, 1882) and Henry David Thoreau (July 12, 1817 – May 6, 1862) were two important American writers and leaders of the Transcendentalist movement.
- Emerson wrote most of his important essays as lectures first, then revised them for print.
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- During the Vicksburg Campaign, Union victory secured the important Mississippi River for the Union and was a turning point in the war.
- The campaign consisted of many important naval operations, troop maneuvers, failed initiatives, and eleven distinct battles from December 26, 1862 to July 4, 1863.
- Vicksburg was strategically important to the Confederates.
- President Abraham Lincoln had long recognized the importance of Vicksburg, writing, "Vicksburg is the key."
- Explain the strategic importance of Vicksburg to the Confederates and the effects of the Union Victory in securing the Mississippi River.
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- Many of the Civil War's most important and bloodiest battles occurred in the Eastern Theater between Washington, D.C. and Richmond.
- The Shenandoah Valley was a crucial region for the Confederacy: it was one of the most important agricultural regions in Virginia and was a prime invasion route against the North.
- It has been argued that the Western Theater was more strategically important in defeating the Confederacy, but it is inconceivable that the civilian populations of both sides could have considered the war to be at an end without the resolution of Lee's surrender at Appomattox Courthouse in 1865.
- Identify the states, important battles fought, and generals involved in the Eastern Theater of the Civil War.