29 Quotes by Albert Bushnell Hart

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

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

The colonies had little occasion to feel or to resent direct royal prerogative.

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

The Stuart sovereigns of England steadily attempted to strengthen their power, and the resistance to that effort caused an immense growth of Parliamentary influence.

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

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.

Each colony became accustomed to planting new settlements and to claiming new boundaries.