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Few characters in history are indispensable.
Albert Bushnell Hart / Historian
Character
Indispensable
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In 1763 the English were the most powerful nation in the world.
Albert Bushnell Hart / Historian
Most Powerful
Powerful
World
Powerful Nation
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In appearance the labor system of all the colonies was the same.
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Appearance
Colony
Labor
Colonies
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More emphasis was thus thrown upon the local governments than in England.
Albert Bushnell Hart / Historian
Emphasis
England
Thrown
Governments
Local
Local Governments
Thus
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In government as well as in trade a new era came to the colonies in 1763.
Albert Bushnell Hart / Historian
Government
Eras
New Era
Trade
Colonies
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In any event, colonization and the grant of lands were provincial matters.
Albert Bushnell Hart / Historian
Colonization
Events
Land
Matter
Event
Matters
Grant
Lands
Provincial
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The colonies had little occasion to feel or to resent direct royal prerogative.
Albert Bushnell Hart / Historian
Direct
Prerogative
Resent
Royal
Colonies
Occasion
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Washington's defeat in 1754 was followed by active military preparations on both sides.
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Active
Both Sides
Defeat
Military
Preparation
Sides
Two Sides
Washington
Followed
Preparations
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Each colony became accustomed to planting new settlements and to claiming new boundaries.
Albert Bushnell Hart / Historian
Accustomed
Boundaries
Colony
Settlement
Became
Claiming
Each
Planting
Settlements
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Taxation is the price which civilized communities pay for the opportunity of remaining civilized.
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Opportunity
Community
Taxation
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Many attempts had been made by colonial legislatures to cut off or to tax the importation of slaves.
Albert Bushnell Hart / Historian
Cutting
Legislature
Slave
Tax
Attempts
Colonial
Cut
Slaves
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On March 10, 1764, preliminary resolutions passed the House of Commons looking towards the Stamp Act.
Albert Bushnell Hart / Historian
House
House Of Commons
March
Resolution
Act
Commons
Towards
Passed
Preliminary
Resolutions
Stamp
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As often happens during a war, some parts of the country prospered, notwithstanding the constant loss.
Albert Bushnell Hart / Historian
War
Constant
Country
Loss
Notwithstanding
Parts
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In each colony in 1750 were to be found two sets of governing organizations, - the local and the general.
Albert Bushnell Hart / Historian
Colony
Governing
Local
Sets
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England and France were rivals, not only on the continent, but in the West Indies, in India, and in Europe.
Albert Bushnell Hart / Historian
England
Europe
France
India
Rivals
West
West Indies
Continent
Indies
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'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.
Albert Bushnell Hart / Historian
Reading
Wine
Would Be
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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.
Albert Bushnell Hart / Historian
Extending
Given
Massachusetts
Pacific
Territory
Titles
Virginia
Atlantic
Westward
Strips
Title
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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.
Albert Bushnell Hart / Historian
Class
Laborers
Miserable
Paid
Term
Wages
White
Years
Everywhere
Besides
Servants
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.
Albert Bushnell Hart / Historian
Effort
England
Growth
Immense
Influence
Parliamentary
Resistance
Caused
Attempted
Steadily
Strengthen
Stuart
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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.
Albert Bushnell Hart / Historian
Men
Orange
Taken
Younger
Elder
William
Pitt
Whom
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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.
Albert Bushnell Hart / Historian
Elements
Inheritance
Political
Settlers
Brought
Traditions
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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.
Albert Bushnell Hart / Historian
Government
Constitutional Government
Establishment
Growth
Law
Machinery
Two
Carrying
Constitutional
Promoted
Sets
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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.
Albert Bushnell Hart / Historian
Legal
Criminal Justice
English Speaking
Justice
Punishment
Race
Everywhere
Criminal
Privileges
Punishments
Tendency
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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.
Albert Bushnell Hart / Historian
Government
England
Participation
People
Significant
Three
Government People More
Colonies
Departments
Seemed
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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.
Albert Bushnell Hart / Historian
Government
Active
Local Government
Middle
Relation
States
Towns
Western
Colonies
Counties
Forerunner
Local
Present
System
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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.
Albert Bushnell Hart / Historian
Men
Commonwealth
Comparison
Destined
Distinguished
Ideas
Political
Possession
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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.
Albert Bushnell Hart / Historian
Wise
Conquest
Dutch
Netherlands
Plymouth
Residence
Settlers
Colonies
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