How Was The American Revolution Funded?
The Stacking Benjamins Show
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The Credit Crisis in the United States
Back in colonial america, banks were illegal. There were none, zero. And this meant that credit was very restricted. The only people who really had credit or gysa like jeremiah wadsworth o hartford,. He built up trusts so that he could buy some suppliers and sell two others. But when the war began, all of their sorces of money that came from outside the country were completely cut off. So i take a special kind of person who has enough credit to be able to supply the army.
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