Quincy
MA
Tombs of Abigail, John, Louisa Catherine,
and John Quincy Adams
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Tombs of Abigail, John, Louisa Catherine,
and John Quincy Adams
The disarrayed condition of the colonies in 1764 — economies and societies in flux with changes wrought by war, governments trying simultaneously to adjust to international peace and cope with the effects of Indian insurrections — helps explain how the colonists reacted to British efforts to reform imperial relations.… But the single most significant factor was the depression that by 1764 had fastened a clammy grip on trade in every colony, and which would not fully release it until the decade had ended.