English years are on the left and US are on the right:
age 3-4: Nursery - Preschool
age 4-5: Reception - 2nd year of Preschool/Pre-Kindergarten
age 5-6: Year 1 - Kindergarten
age 6-7: Year 2 - 1st grade
age 7-8: Year 3 - 2nd grade
age 8-9: Year 4 - 3rd grae
age 9-10: Year 5 - 4th grade
age 10-11: Year 6 - 5th grade
age 11-12: Year 7 - 6th grade
age 12-13: Year 8 - 7th grade
age 13-14: Year 9 - 8th grade
age 14-15: Year 10 - 9th grade
age 15-16: Year 11 - 10th grade
age 16-7: Year 12/Lower Sixth - 11th grade
age 17-18: Year 13/Upper Sixth - 12th grade
age 18+: University - College/University
(The US uses the two terms interchangeably and doesn't have any equivalent to Sixth Form which is what the UK refers to as "college")
The US has not converted to the Metric System yet. We are still using the English Customary.
The US measurement system is based on the English system, or imperial units, though England has now long since converted to SI.
English common law
An inch is such a measure.
the american colonies under gereat britan
The English Common Law was important in the development of the American System of Criminal Justice System. Th English Common Law was chosen by the judges and courts. The English Common Law provides presidential weight on the common law and requires that all acts committed be treated the same and not different on different occasions.
Parliamentary is the British political system. Presidential is the American political system.
The English institution that contributed greatly to American democracy is the British Parliament. The American colonists drew inspiration from the English Parliament's system of representative government, including the concept of a bicameral legislature with a House of Commons and a House of Lords. The ideas and structures of English parliamentary democracy influenced the development of the United States' own system of government.
yes they are the same system arn't the
The Imperial system, except that it is not a system but a whole load of bits and pieces. Think US gallon and UK gallon, for example.
A government is the system by which a state or community is governed. In British English (and that of the Commonwealth of Nations), a government more narrowly refers to the particular executive in control of a state at a given time-known in American English as an administration. In American English, government refers to the larger system by which any state is organized. Furthermore, government is occasionally used in English as a synonym for governance.
To Metric: The English system is only used by basically one country and is unnecessarily complicated! The metric system uses tens and its multiples, very simple! To English: Be different! Don't go with the flow of the world. English system is radical and AMERICAN!