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More emphasis was thus thrown upon the local governments than in England.
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Everywhere among the English-speaking race criminal justice was rude, and punishments were barbarous; but the tendency was to do away with special privileges and legal exemptions.
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The old charters of Massachusetts, Virginia, and the Carolinas had given title to strips of territory extending from the Atlantic westward to the Pacific.
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In appearance the labor system of all the colonies was the same.
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In government as well as in trade a new era came to the colonies in 1763.
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On March 10, 1764, preliminary resolutions passed the House of Commons looking towards the Stamp Act.
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Washington's defeat in 1754 was followed by active military preparations on both sides.
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One of the strongest and most persistent elements in national development has been that inheritance of political traditions and usages which the new settlers brought with them.
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The residence of the Plymouth settlers in the Netherlands, and the later conquest of the Dutch colonies, had brought the Americans into contact with the singularly wise and free institutions of the Dutch.
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In each colony in 1750 were to be found two sets of governing organizations, - the local and the general.
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From William of Orange to William Pitt the younger there was but one man without whom English history must have taken a different turn, and that was William Pitt the elder.
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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 system of local government in the Western States.
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In 1763 the English were the most powerful nation in the world.
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England and France were rivals, not only on the continent, but in the West Indies, in India, and in Europe.
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The colonies had little occasion to feel or to resent direct royal prerogative.
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