Albert Bushnell Hart

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

— Albert Bushnell Hart

In 1763 the English were the most powerful nation in the world.

— Albert Bushnell Hart

England and France were rivals, not only on the continent, but in the West Indies, in India, and in Europe.

— Albert Bushnell Hart

More emphasis was thus thrown upon the local governments than in England.

— Albert Bushnell Hart

Taxation is the price which civilized communities pay for the opportunity of remaining civilized.

— Albert Bushnell Hart

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

— Albert Bushnell Hart

'Good wine needs no bush', and if there were need to urge the reading of history it would be proof that history…

— Albert Bushnell Hart

Many attempts had been made by colonial legislatures to cut off or to tax the importation of slaves.

— Albert Bushnell Hart

The residence of the Plymouth settlers in the Netherlands, and the later conquest of the Dutch colonies, had brought the Americans into…

— Albert Bushnell Hart

As often happens during a war, some parts of the country prospered, notwithstanding the constant loss.

— Albert Bushnell Hart

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

— Albert Bushnell Hart

In comparison with other men of their time, the Americans were distinguished by the possession of new political and social ideas, which…

— Albert Bushnell Hart

Few characters in history are indispensable.

— Albert Bushnell Hart

In some of the middle colonies the towns and counties were both active and had a relation with each other which was…

— Albert Bushnell Hart

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

— Albert Bushnell Hart

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

— Albert Bushnell Hart

Everywhere among the English-speaking race criminal justice was rude, and punishments were barbarous; but the tendency was to do away with special…

— Albert Bushnell Hart

Washington's defeat in 1754 was followed by active military preparations on both sides.

— Albert Bushnell Hart

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

— Albert Bushnell Hart

In each colony in 1750 were to be found two sets of governing organizations, - the local and the general.

— Albert Bushnell Hart

The participation of the people in their own government was the more significant, because the colonies actually had what England only seemed…

— Albert Bushnell Hart

Besides paid white laborers, there was everywhere a class of white servants bound without wages for a term of years, and a…

— Albert Bushnell Hart

One of the strongest and most persistent elements in national development has been that inheritance of political traditions and usages which the…

— Albert Bushnell Hart

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

— Albert Bushnell Hart

The growth of constitutional government, as we now understand it, was promoted by the establishment of two different sets of machinery for…

— Albert Bushnell Hart