The English learned the art of self-government, and the American colonies took it even further.
In 1775, England's King George the Third proclaimed the American colonies in a state of open rebellion.
In order to make the white tableware, Wedgwood imported kaolin clay from the Cherokee tribe in the American colonies.
One of the earliest and arguably most historically significant North American colonies was Plymouth Colony, founded in 1620 in what is now known as Plymouth, Massachusetts.
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Starting in the 17th century, the American Colonies adopted a local militia system to which every able-bodied man between the ages of 18 and 45 was required to belong.
The jury soon became standard in criminal and civil cases at common law, and its use spread with the British empire, nowhere more so than in the American colonies.
King James I's ministers persuaded him not to ban smoking in England because tobacco was the only crop earning the growing American colonies enough profit to pay for their imports of luxury and manufactured goods from England.
As British foreign policy expert Lawrence Freedman pointed out, American power is based on alliances rather than colonies, and is associated both with an ideology that encourages individual aspirations and with a system that provides the means for people to achieve them.
As British foreign policy expert Lawrence Freedman has pointed out, American power is based on alliances rather than colonies, and is associated both with an ideology that encourages individual aspirations and with a system that provides the means for people to achieve them.
There are 500 similar "colonies" across Canada and in the American states of North and South Dakota, home to a total of 50, 000 Hutterites.
American proponents of imperialism argued that the country needed colonies to bolster its military power and to find markets for its capital, but they also believed that by expanding overseas, the United States was fulfilling its historic mission to transform the world in its image.
Sotheby's first started courting the Colonies as far back as 1964, when it bought the American auction house ParkeBernet.
Among the most sought after are a collection of early revolutionary war muskets produced by the Committee of Safety, a group of American gun makers who copied British muskets and supplied them to militia units fighting for the colonies.
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