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    13 English Colonies Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, Delaware, New York, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, Connecticut, Maryland were the thirteen colonies all had a different reason to be a colony. The thirteen colonies were divided into three different areas. The middle colonies were Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, and Delaware. The southern colonies were Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia. and the northern

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    The thirteen colonies independence from Britain The thirteen colonies had always been loyal to the British Crown. Since Great Britain had always kept its distance from the colonies affairs and had allowed the thirteen colonies freedom to manage their own affairs. The thirteen colonies had hardly experience any injustice from the British, but eventually their relationship would change. The colonies would eventually seek its independence form British since they develop disputes between money and respect

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    The Thirteen original colonies can be separated into three main regions: New England, Middle, and Plantation colonies. Each of the regions had different logic for why they would be founded, and how they were structured. The New England Colonies were founded because the Pilgrims and Puritans wanted new religious freedoms. The Middle Colonies were also founded for religious purposes, the peoples of the Middle colonies wanted to be able to worship freely and wanted new separate governments. However

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    The thirteen colonies had been established with different governments by each of their founders. A series of failed governments in England persuaded the Enlightenment thinkers on how their knowledge could benefit the world around them. This group of Enlightenment thinkers consisted of writers and thinkers from Europe and North America known as “philosophes”. They were a group who rejected traditional beliefs, who supported equality and did not believe in the supernatural or superstitions. These ideas

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    Which of the Thirteen Colonies do you think was the most important to the history of America? Well, I believe that the Middle Colonies was the most important. The Thirteen Colonies were the Southern, Middle, and the New England Colonies, which came from Europe. The Thirteen Colonies were founded to seek religious freedom, get profit from gold and crops, and establish new colonies. The Middle Colonies had the most impact on the history of America. Since the Middle Colonies did not practice a lot of

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    Original Thirteen Colonies The original 13 colonies were established in 1607. Virginia/Jamestown was the first followed by, in chronological order, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Maryland, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Delaware, North Carolina, South Carolina, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Georgia. These colonies were governed by the British until the Revolutionary War. The thirteen colonies were divided into three groups based on geography: New England Colonies, Middle Colonies, and Southern

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    The thirteen colonies were fighting for our freedom. They were fighting from British. They broke at the Battle of Lexington and Concord. The war broke April 19, 1778. On June 11,1776 the Second Continental Congress appointed a committee of of five men to write a Declaration of Independence. Those five men were Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Robert Livingston, Roger Sherman. The thirteen colonies in the America’s had been at war with Britain for a year and the Second wanted

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    Control Freaks? “The Thirteen Colonies were a group of British colonies on the east coast of North America founded in the 17th and 18th centuries that declared independence in 1776 and formed the United States of America” (Wikipedia.com. 2017). This led to the Thirteen Colonies to have very similar legal, constitutional, and political system, the Thirteen Colonies were part of Britain's possessions in the new world (Wikipedia.com. 2017). Throughout the 18th century, the colonies under the British rule

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    Life in the colonies is not all that is made up to be. There are accurate articles but also unfortunately others that are completely off. The people in England do not get an accurate picture; they are thousands of miles away so their only source of information is the newspapers. The latter tend to be one sided furthermore the British people can not cross reference the information they receive and therefore they cannot tell if the articles are accurate. This is an account of what life is truly

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    The thirteen colonies had a major impact on the independence of what is now present day United States of America. Of the three different types of colonies, there were two colonies: (the most northern colonies)New England colonies and the Middle colonies. The New England colonies consisted of Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Rhode Island. The Middle colonies included New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware. The two separate colonies had both some similarities and some differences

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