Sentence examples for colonial governments from inspiring English sources

Nine colonies developed state churches, which were supported financially by the colonial governments and whose power was woven in with that of the governments.

Going back several decades, to the end of the British Empire, we now know that British colonial governments destroyed a lot of documentation when they left the colonies.

When the War ended, the British Parliament enacted several measures pertaining to the English colonies in North America, with two primary objectives in mind: (1) to increase tax revenue from the colonies, and (2) to help reestablish British control over the thirteen colonial governments that had become increasingly independent while the Crown was distracted by the war.

In 1900 the Crown Agents for the Colonies sent three albums of postage stamps made on their order for colonial governments and then sent specimens of all future stamps commissioned.

He says that before the Revolution, "at least one colony, Maryland, passed a law barring Catholics from possessing firearms" and that "other colonial governments prohibited any white person unwilling to affirm his allegiance to the British Crown from collecting firearms".

Colonial governments were predictably unsupportive of the whole undertaking.

After the Indian Rebellion of 1857, the British colonial government (British Raj) replaced the governance of the East India Company.

The colonial government kept control of a critical resource: land.

The Dutch colonial government pronounced Medan a city in 1886.

The British colonial government destroyed the evidence of its crimes.

This is a long-standing law inherited from the British colonial government.