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

- 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 new …

- 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 the forerunner of the present sys…

- 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 contact with …

- Albert Bushnell Hart

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

- 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 were destined…

- Albert Bushnell Hart

Few characters in history are indispensable.

- Albert Bushnell Hart

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

- Albert Bushnell Hart

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

- Albert Bushnell Hart