William Penn's Model Colony--Sketch of the Founder of Pennsylvania-- Comparative Humanity of Quaker Laws--Modified Freedom of Religion-- An Early Liquor Law--Offences Against Morality Severely Punished-- White Servitude--Debtors Sold Into Bondage--Georgia Founded as an Asylum for Debtors--Oglethorpe Repulses the Spaniards--Georgia a Royal Province, 95 SECOND PERIOD. THE STRUGGLE FOR EMPIRE. CHAPTER XIII. Struggle for Empire in North America--The Vast Region Called Louisiana-- War Between England and France--New England Militia Besiege Quebec-- Frontenac Strikes the Iroquois--The Capture of Louisburg--The Forks of the Ohio--George Washington's Mission to the French--Braddock's Defeat--Washington Prevents Utter Disaster--Barbarous Treatment of Prisoners, 103 CHAPTER XIV. Expulsion of the Acadians--A Cruel Deportation--The Marquis De Montcalm--The Fort William Henry Massacre--Defeat of Abercrombie-- William Pitt Prosecutes the War Vigorously--Fort Duquesne Reduced-- Louisburg Again Captured--Wolfe Attacks Quebec--Battle of the Plains of Abraham--Wolfe and Montcalm Mortally Wounded--Quebec Surrenders--New France a Dream of the Past--Pontiac's War, 108 THIRD PERIOD. THE REVOLUTION. CHAPTER XV. Causes of the Revolution--The Act of Navigation--Acts of Trade--Odious Customs Laws--English Jealousy of New England--Effect of Restrictions on Colonial Trade--Du Chatelet Foresees Rebellion and Independence--The Revolution a Struggle for More Than Political Freedom, 115 CHAPTER XVI. Writs of Assistance Issued--Excitement in Boston--The Stamp Act--Protests against Taxation Without Representation--Massachusetts Appoints a Committee of Correspondence--Samuel Adams and Patrick Henry--Henry's Celebrated Resolutions--His Warning to King George--Growing Agitation in the Colonies--The Stamp Act Repealed--Parliament Levies Duties on Tea and Other Imports to America--Lord North's Choice of Infamy--Measures of Resistance in America--The Massachusetts Circular Letter--British Troops in Boston--The Boston Massacre--Burning of the Gaspee--North Carolina "Regulators"--The Boston Tea Party--The Boston Port Bill--The First Continental Congress--A Declaration of Rights--"Give Me Liberty, or Give Me Death!" 122 CHAPTER XVII.