Hãy tham khảo Đề thi tập huấn THPT Quốc gia môn tiếng Anh năm 2018 - Sở GD&ĐT Bắc Ninh - Mã đề 320 giúp các bạn học sinh có thêm nguồn tài liệu để tham khảo cũng như củng cố kiến thức trước khi bước vào kì thi. Chúc các bạn đạt kết quả cao trong kì thi! | In the American colonies there was little money. England did not supply the colonies with coins and it did not allow the colonies to make their own coins, except for the Massachusetts Bay Colony, which received permission for a short period in 1652 to make several kinds of silver coins. England wanted to keep money out of America as a means of controlling trade: America was forced to trade only with England if it did not have the money to buy products from other countries. The result during this pre-revolutionary period was that the colonists used various goods in place of money: beaver pelts, Indian wampum, and tobacco leaves were all commonly used substitutes for money. The colonists also made use of any foreign coins they could obtain. Dutch, Spanish, French, and English coins were all in use in the American colonies. During the Revolutionary War, funds were needed to finance the war, so each of the individual states and the Continental Congress issued paper money. So much of this paper money was printed that by the end of the war it was virtually worthless. As a result, trade in goods and the use of foreign coins still flourished during this period
