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.

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

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

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.

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

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

'Good wine needs no bush', and if there were need to urge the reading of history it would be proof that history is too dull and unattractive to be read.