On March 10, 1764, preliminary resolutions passed the House of Commons looking towards the Stamp Act.
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As often happens during a war, some parts of the country prospered, notwithstanding the constant loss.
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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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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 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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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.
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The Stuart sovereigns of England steadily attempted to strengthen their power, and the resistance to that effort caused an immense growth of Parliamentary influence.
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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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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 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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