He worked hard to enable the American colonies to gain independence from Britain.

他努力使美国殖民地脱离英国从而获得独立。

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The acts were originally designed to force the French to gradually abandon their American colonies.

这些法案最初是为了迫使法国人逐渐放弃他们的美国殖民地。

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During this time, he saw the American colonies grow from tiny settlements into a nation and he also contributed much to the new state.

在这段时间里，他见证了美国殖民地从一个小殖民地发展成为一个国家，而他也为这个新国家做出了很大的贡献。

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The first newspaper published in Britain's North American colonies appeared in Boston,Massachusetts, in sixteen ninety.

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Travelers from England and elsewhere, France, who would come to the American colonies and would travel throughout the colonies, would often comment on this, that somehow Southerners were different culturally, attitudinally, behaviorally.

那些从英格兰,法国或其他地方,来到美国殖民地,四处游历的旅行者们,常常会做出这样的评价,即南方人总是很特别,他们的文化,观念,行为均与众不同

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Philadelphia became the social, political and geographical center of the American colonies.

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The English learned the art of self-government, and the American colonies took it even further.

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In 1775, England's King George the Third proclaimed the American colonies in a state of open rebellion.

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In order to make the white tableware, Wedgwood imported kaolin clay from the Cherokee tribe in the American colonies.

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