1.   Thomas Jefferson said that Britain had no right to legislate for its American colonies.

2.   In a similar way it was the growing wealth of the planters which first drew English manufactures to the American colonies.

3.   A year later, Massachusetts became the first American colony to make slavery legal.

4.   Economic sanctions were imposed by the American colonies against Britain in response to the Stamp and Townsend Acts, in both cases forcing their repeal.

5.   Hounded out of England, she sailed for the American colonies, landing in New York.

6.   It was an American colony since the turn of the century, and the Americans brought their sports with them.

7.   Many large American investors talked openly of giving up on this former American colony.

8.   Over the next three centuries, Anglicanism was spread throughout the once global British empire, including the American colonies, where it evolved into the autonomous Episcopal Church.

9.   Slaves from West Africa, like the ones who revolted on the slave ship that gives this movie its title, introduced the peanut to the American colonies.

10.   So naturally, the earliest samplers made in the American colonies look English.