Albert Bushnell Hart

Washington's defeat in 1754 was followed by active military preparations on both sides. ”

On March 10, 1764, preliminary resolutions passed the House of Commons looking towards the Stamp Act. ”

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. ”

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. ”

Each colony became accustomed to planting new settlements and to claiming new boundaries. ”

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. ”

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 Negro slaves. ”

The Stuart sovereigns of England steadily attempted to strengthen their power, and the resistance to that effort caused an immense growth of Parliamentary influence. ”

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. ”

In government as well as in trade a new era came to the colonies in 1763. ”