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

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 system of local government in the Western States.

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

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

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

The participation of the people in their own government was the more significant, because the colonies actually had what England only seemed to have, - three departments of government.