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

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.

The old charters of Massachusetts, Virginia, and the Carolinas had given title to strips of territory extending from the Atlantic westward to the Pacific.

Few characters in history are indispensable.

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

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.

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