They agree to sell shares/stocks of their company in an IPO, Initial Public Offering. They can raise billions of dollars this way instead of what a bank would loan at whatever interest rate
The provincial congresses took legislative actions on the part of the 13 colonies.
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The Columbian Exchange greatly affected almost every society on earth, bringing destructive diseases that depopulated many cultures, and also circulating a wide variety of new crops and livestock that, in the long term, increased rather than diminished the world human population.