Colonial+government+and+laws


 * __Characteristics of the Colonies__**

Each colony its own unique characteristics, but historians include them into groups based on where they were, why they were founded, and what kinds of industry they had:
 * __New England Colonies__:** Rhode Island, Connecticut, Massachusetts, and New Hampshire
 * __Middle Colonies:__** Delware, Pennsylvania, New York, and New Jersey
 * __Southern Colonies:__** Maryland, Virgina, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia

More and more Americans voiced their concerned over higher and higher taxes, a conflict began to build. The Americans pulled together as never before. They took up arms against their English governors and fellow soldiers. The result was the Revolutionary war which ended in American victory. During the colonial times, there was no real law except that of English common law.English common law meant stand by decisions. English judges did not like to undermine each other. English rule, they first looked to common law.The only problem was English judges wrote the court records.When they sloved the problem, the lowest level was the justice fo the peace. Next came the county courts. The supreme courts were the highest level court. If a person did not agree with the decision the court made. [|YouTube - American Revolution - Flag History] [|YouTube - The American Revolution] [|YouTube - Slavery and the American Revolution - Part 4]
 * __Colonial Government In America__**
 * Colonial Assemblies had their beginnings in the Virgina in 1619.
 * Two burgesses represent each town and plantation.
 * The seventeenth century created a bicameral legislature under Govenor John Harvey.
 * When Berkely returned to power in 1662, he failed to call elections and retained the old assembly until Bacon's Rebellion in 1676.
 * Revolution**
 * Law in colonial time**