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    different colonies, formed by many different countries and in different regions. Eventually, the settlements were narrowed down to thirteen English colonies. These settlements ultimately became the first thirteen states of the United States of America. This is the story of how they were formed. The first of the thirteen colonies was Jamestown, Virginia. Virginia was was the first successful British settlement in the Americas, colonized in 1607. (Before Jamestown, there was a colony named ‘Roanoke’

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    Britain. It made way for the thirteen original colonies and it showed Great Britain they did not want to be part of them anymore. The Declaration of Independence is a statement made up by the Continental Congress meeting in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on July 4, 1776. This Declaration announced that the original thirteen colonies of the United States that was at war with Great Britain at the time, wanted to be separated from Great Britain creating the thirteen original colonies. This document meant that

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    was a time where slavery was still considered popular among many states (Mays 253). From 1765 up until 1783, the American Colonies, went through a radical transformation into an independent nation in which they fought for, after many years of being controlled by the English government (Greene and Pole 251). The outcome of the American Revolution not only affected the colonies, economically, but as well as culturally, politically, and would bring upon many changes that

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    During the tobacco boom of the 1620s, two English colonies located along Chesapeake Bay, Maryland and Virginia, were the first to prosper in North America. From 1624 to 1752, thirteen English colonies emerged along the Eastern coast of North America, with a multitude of diversities among them that transformed the map of the English New World. Colonial life within these three regions: New England, middle, and southern colonies was diverse because of the varying geography, economy, and society the

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    Declaration of independent People would not seek for freedom unless, they do not have enough freedom, or they are Being over controlled. According to the first thirteen colonies, the entire colonist came from England, because King George had control over everything. People escape from Great Britain came started their own, new life. However, the king George still had his control on the colonist. Within passing years, the colonist started developing and growing, but King George still had his

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    American revolution war is a war that had begun as a conflict between Great Britain and the thirteen colonies, the Acts of Navigation were established, and the Triangular Trade route had been established. These are most of the events that had led to the American Revolution ware. The American revolution war had started on April 19, 1775 and had ended on September 3, 1783. Great Britain and the thirteen colonies had followed in to the Stamp Act and they then the Patriot had pretested against the taxation

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    Virginia, one of the original thirteen colonies. The city of Richmond, Virginia became the capital of the Confederacy during the Civil War. Virginia also played an important factor in the Revolutionary War. Virginia also was the home place of George Washington. It was also the birthplace of Thomas Jefferson So one could say Virginia was and still is a very prominent state of the U.S. . Virginia’s admission to the U.S. was on June 25, 1788 and was also the tenth state of the United States. Because

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    The thirteen colonies that became the USA were originally colonies of Great Britain. By the time the American Revolution took place, the citizens of these colonies were beginning to get tired of the British rule. Rebellion and discontent were rampant. For those people who see the change in the American government and society a real Revolution, the Revolution is essentially an economic one. The main reason the colonies started rebelling against 'mother England' was the taxation issue. The colonies

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    A colony, or the idea that an area can be under full or partial control by another country, serving as a source of profit and or raw material for the motherland, served as the main catalyst for the colonists of Britain’s “new world” to revolt against British rule. Wanting freedom from their tyrannical king, the colonists began to protest British parliament’s unjust bills. It was through British parliament’s bills that colonists united to rebel and replace English rule throughout the thirteen colonies

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    continuing until the last of the thirteen colonies was established; geography was a substantial factor in the development of colonial America. The crops that essentially saved the colonists lives, such as tobacco, rice, and indigo, wouldn’t have grown without a certain type and amount of soil to grow properly. Also, the Appalachian Mountains and the dense forests provided a barrier for the colonists, preventing them from going too far west right away, and causing the colonies to form in the arrangement

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