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Government in colonial America

Call Number

  • J 973.2 COLL (CEN, OSH)

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Edition

First edition.

Publication Information

New York : Cavendish Square Publishing, 2015.

Physical Description

80 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm.

Summary

Follow the development of goverment in the colonial period from the arrival of the first settlers to the adoption of the Constitution of the United States.

Contents

  • Spreading the word
  • The governments back home
  • Origins of self government
  • Government by charter
  • Colonists start to pull away
  • Four hundred years of Spanish government
  • The government that came to stay
  • By the people
  • Glossary
  • Further reading
  • Quotation sources.

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