bounty

(noun)

A reward for some specific act, especially one given by a government or authority.

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Examples of bounty in the following topics:

  • A Growing Society

    • They gave bounties and subsidies or monopolies to sawmills, grist mills, iron mills, pulling mills (which treated cloth), salt works, and glassworks.

  • Slavery and the Revolution

    • Some motives for joining the American forces may have been a desire for adventure, belief in the justice and goals of the Revolution, and the possibility of receiving a bounty.

  • The American Military Forces

    • However, as the war dragged on, bounties and other incentives became increasingly commonplace.

  • The Mercantalist System

    • A tariff was placed on imports and a bounty given for exports, while the export of some raw materials was banned completely.

  • Troubled Neighbors

    • Another was hunting enemy Indians for the purpose of scalping them and claiming the cash bounty offered by colonial governments.

  • Agriculture

    • This growth was stimulated by a British bounty of six pence per pound.

  • King Philip's War

    • They were allowed to keep the possessions of warring Indians and received a bounty on all captives.

  • The Battle of Gettysburg

    • The invasion would allow the Confederates to live off the bounty of rich Northern farms while giving war-ravaged Virginia a much-needed rest.

  • The Agrarian and Populist Movements

  • The Underground Railroad

    • Federal marshals and professional bounty hunters known as slave catchers pursued fugitives as far as the Canadian border.