A history of the United States . way from the mother country. The colonists, espe-cially those of New England, had very generally left GreatBritain for the purpose of escaping oppression; and, after thenew settlements were made, the conduct of the home govern-ment was not such as to diminish the sense of wrong. It wasless than thirty years after the landing at Plymouth when thefirst of the Navigation Acts marked the beginning of apolicy designed to encourage British at the expense of colo-nial commerce (§ 43), and in 1672 this unwise course of actionwas carried still further. A law was passed
A history of the United States . way from the mother country. The colonists, espe-cially those of New England, had very generally left GreatBritain for the purpose of escaping oppression; and, after thenew settlements were made, the conduct of the home govern-ment was not such as to diminish the sense of wrong. It wasless than thirty years after the landing at Plymouth when thefirst of the Navigation Acts marked the beginning of apolicy designed to encourage British at the expense of colo-nial commerce (§ 43), and in 1672 this unwise course of actionwas carried still further. A law was passed which imposedthe same duties on trade between one colony and another as ontrade between America and foreign countries; and to enforcethis law, customhouses were established along the borderlines between the different colonies. This naturally led to aconstant and a growing friction between the royal governorswho had to collect the revenue, and the colonists who had topay it. The seventy-five years immediately before the Seven 87. Gkorgk III. § 119] GENERAL CAUSES. 89 Years War are full of instances of the unfriendly relationsbetween the people and the agents of the home government*(§ 94). 118. Influence of the Seven Years War. — These unfriendlyrelations were happily interrupted by the war which resultedin the fall of Quebec and the transfer of Canada from theFrench to the English. The fact that the Americans wereunited with the English in a common cause against a commonenemy drew them nearer and nearer together. In the prosecu-tion of the war the colonists bore a prominent and honorablepart, and at its close they everywhere shared in the general re-joicing. In this spirit old Fort Duquesne was given the namePittsburg, in honor of the great- statesman who had accom-plished so much for the continent; and the legislature ofMassachusetts voted for Westminster Abbey an elaboratemonument to Lord Howe, who had fallen at is certain that a new spirit of loyalty and d
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