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  2. Britain's American colonies broke with the mother country in 1776 and were recognized as the new nation of the United States of America following the Treaty of Paris in 1783. During the 19th and 20th centuries, 37 new states were added to the original 13 as the nation expanded across the North American continent and acquired a number of ...
  3. The history of the 13 American colonies that would become the first 13 states of the United States dates to 1492 when Christopher Columbus discovered what he thought was a New World, but was really North America, ... small towns were the centers of local government. In 1643, Massachusetts Bay, Plymouth, Connecticut, and New Haven formed the New ...
  4. The United States of America started out as 13 original colonies. These colonies belonged to the British Empire and were founded during the 17th and 18th centuries. By the 1700s, the British government controlled its colonies under mercantilism, a system that regulated the balance of trade in favor of Britain.
  5. The 1981 book The Nine Nations of North America by Washington Post reporter Joel Garreau was an attempt to explore the regional geography of the North American continent and assign portions of the continent to one of nine "nations," which are geographic regions that have consistent qualities and similar features.
  6. The age of exploration in North America started with finding a new trade route to the East and ended with countries settling on a new continent. ... 870 CE: The Viking explorer Erik the Red (ca. 950-1003) reaches Greenland, begins a colony, and interacts with the local people he calls "Skraelings." 998: Erik the Red's son Leif Erikson (c. 970 ...
  7. The North American colonies that were settled by the English are often divided into three different groups: the New England colonies, the Middle colonies, and the Southern colonies. The New England colonies consisted of Massachusetts Bay, New Hampshire, Connecticut, and Rhode Island. These colonies shared many common characteristics that helped ...
  8. In 1688, the first written protest against enslavement in North America was created and signed by the Quakers in Germantown. In 1712, the trade of enslaved people was outlawed in Pennsylvania. The colony was well-advertised, and by 1700 it was the third-biggest and the richest colony in the New World.
  9. The United States of America was founded in 1776 along the east coast of North America, wedged between British Canada and Spanish Mexico. The original country consisted of thirteen states and territory that extended west to the Mississippi River. Since 1776, a variety of treaties, purchases, wars, and Acts of Congress have extended the ...
  10. By the 18th century, regional patterns of development had become clear: the New England colonies relied on shipbuilding and sailing to generate wealth; plantations (many of which were run by the forced labor of enslaved people) in Maryland, Virginia, and the Carolinas grew tobacco, rice, and indigo; and the middle colonies of New York ...
  11. May 16, 2024MPI / Stringer / Getty Images. The city of Jamestown is the second-oldest city in the U.S. and the site of the first permanent English colony in North America. It was founded on April 26, 1607, and briefly called James Fort after the English king. The settlement foundered in its first years and was briefly abandoned in 1610.

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