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" As often happens during a war, some parts of the country prospered, notwithstanding the constant loss. "
Often
Some
War
" 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. "
Class
Without
White
" Each colony became accustomed to planting new settlements and to claiming new boundaries. "
Colony
Boundaries
Planting
" England and France were rivals, not only on the continent, but in the West Indies, in India, and in Europe. "
Only
Were
West
" 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. "
Rude
Special
Justice
" Few characters in history are indispensable. "
Few
History
Indispensable
" 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. "
History
Man
Orange
" In 1763 the English were the most powerful nation in the world. "
Nation
English
Most
" In any event, colonization and the grant of lands were provincial matters. "
Matters
Any
Event
" In appearance the labor system of all the colonies was the same. "
Labor
Appearance
Colonies
" 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. "
Political
Men
Time
" In each colony in 1750 were to be found two sets of governing organizations, - the local and the general. "
Found
Local
General
" In government as well as in trade a new era came to the colonies in 1763. "
New
Colonies
Government
" 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. "
Present
Colonies
Active
" Many attempts had been made by colonial legislatures to cut off or to tax the importation of slaves. "
Made
Tax
Slaves
" More emphasis was thus thrown upon the local governments than in England. "
England
Than
Thus
" 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. "
Development
Political
Inheritance
" On March 10, 1764, preliminary resolutions passed the House of Commons looking towards the Stamp Act. "
Stamp
Looking
House
" The colonies had little occasion to feel or to resent direct royal prerogative. "
Feel
Royal
Little
" 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. "
Understand
Growth
Now
" The old charters of Massachusetts, Virginia, and the Carolinas had given title to strips of territory extending from the Atlantic westward to the Pacific. "
Westward
Pacific
Virginia
" The participation of the people in their own government was the more significant, because the colonies actually had what England only seemed to have, - three departments of government. "
Colonies
Three
People
" 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. "
Wise
Colonies
Residence
" The Stuart sovereigns of England steadily attempted to strengthen their power, and the resistance to that effort caused an immense growth of Parliamentary influence. "
Effort
Power
Caused
" Washington's defeat in 1754 was followed by active military preparations on both sides. "
Military
Washington
Both Sides
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