Outlines of Universal History, Designed As a Text-Book And for Private Reading
Outlines of Universal History, Designed As a Text-Book And for Private Reading
Fisher George Park
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began to be enforced. The revolution of 1688 restored to the colonies their privileges ; but Massachusetts (with which Plymouth was now united), under its new charter (1691), no longer elected its governor. Prior to the Revolution, there were three forms of government among the colonies. Proprietary governments (that is, government by owners or proprietors) still remained in Pennsyl- vania, Delaware, and Maryland. In these the king appointed no officers except in the customs and admiralty court...s. In Rhode Island and Connecticut, which like Massachusetts retained their diarters, the governors were chosen by the people. New Hamp- shire, New York, New Jersey, Virginia, North and South Carolina, had royal or provincial governments : the governor and council were appointed by the king. Ooonpationfl. — The chief occupation of the colonists was agri- culture. In the North, wheat and com were raised. From Virginia and Maryland, great crops of tobacco were exported from the plantations, in English ships .which came up the Potomac and the James.
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