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In appearance the labor system of all the colonies was the same.

~Albert Bushnell Hart

Topics: Appearance Colonies Labor Same System

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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.

~Albert Bushnell Hart

Topics: Active Both Colonies Counties Each Government Had Local Local Government Middle Other Present Relation Some States System Towns Were Western Which

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

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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.

~Albert Bushnell Hart

Topics: American Brought Colonies Conquest Contact Dutch Free Had Institutions Later Netherlands Residence Settlers Wise

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In any event, colonization and the grant of lands were provincial matters.

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Topics: Any Colonization Event Grant Lands Matters Provincial Were

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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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Topics: Atlantic Extending Given Had Massachusetts Old Pacific Strips Territory Title Virginia Westward

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In comparison with other men of their time, the Americans were distinguished by the possession of new political and social ideas, which were destined to be the foundation of the American commonwealth.

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Topics: American Commonwealth Comparison Destined Distinguished Foundation Ideas Men New Other Political Possession Social Time Were Which

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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.

~Albert Bushnell Hart

Topics: Been Brought Development Elements Inheritance Most National New Persistent Political Settlers Strongest Them Traditions Which

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The growth of constitutional government, as we now understand it, was promoted by the establishment of two different sets of machinery for making laws and carrying on government.

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Topics: Carrying Constitutional Different Establishment Government Growth Laws Machinery Making Now Promoted Sets Two Understand

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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.

~Albert Bushnell Hart

Topics: Among Away Criminal Criminal Justice English-Speaking Everywhere Justice Legal Privileges Punishments Race Rude Special Tendency Were

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Historian

Born: July 1st, 1854

Died: July 16th, 1943

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