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In government as well as in trade a new era came to the colonies in 1763.
The colonies had little occasion to feel or to resent direct royal prerogative.
The old charters of Massachusetts, Virginia, and the Carolinas had given title to strips of territory extending from the Atlantic westward to the... →
Each colony became accustomed to planting new settlements and to claiming new boundaries.
England and France were rivals, not only on the continent, but in the West Indies, in India, and in Europe.
In any event, colonization and the grant of lands were provincial matters.
In appearance the labor system of all the colonies was the same.
Everywhere among the English-speaking race criminal justice was rude, and punishments were barbarous; but the tendency was to do away with special... →
The Stuart sovereigns of England steadily attempted to strengthen their power, and the resistance to that effort caused an immense growth of... →
Besides paid white laborers, there was everywhere a class of white servants bound without wages for a term of years, and a more miserable class of... →
In comparison with other men of their time, the Americans were distinguished by the possession of new political and social ideas, which were destined... →
In some of the middle colonies the towns and counties were both active and had a relation with each other which was the forerunner of the present... →
The residence of the Plymouth settlers in the Netherlands, and the later conquest of the Dutch colonies, had brought the Americans into contact with... →
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