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If it was natural for settlers in America to bring with them the familiar English forms of government, it was equally natural that these forms would begin to change almost as soon as they were planted in American soil. The colonies, after all, had almost none of the uniformity of the English population and customs. They extended over a vastly broader landscape. Their people clung to the edge of a wilderness whose true size and content was almost entirely unknown. And these residents faced, not very far away, a variety of other peoples whose attitudes toward the newcomers ranged from indifference to outright hostility.
So the settlers both preserved and altered the forms to which they were accustomed.
To the south, soil, climate and plenty of space combined to foster an agricultural economy, and the English manorial system was quickly mimicked in Virginia, the Carolinas and Georgia. On both large plantations and smaller farms, settlers were distributed over a huge geographic area. The English county, as the proper governmental unit to serve a large area, was quickly adopted as the principal form of governance throughout the south.