The 13 original colonies of the United States ... South Carolina and Georgia. In the American colonies, governing structures varied widely. Some, like Massachusetts Bay Colony, embraced self ...

Which British colony was the wealthiest? Conjectures about the real and nominal incomes in the 13 American colonies can now be made with new data. Historically, New England has been poor, and the ...

Thomas Paine’s Common Sense, “addressed to the inhabitants of America,” was a 47-page dynamo presenting the recently ...

The Thirteen Colonies were a group of British colonies ... They were not the first colonial outposts on the American continent, but they were the ones where colonists eventually pushed back ...

2 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1788, Georgia ratified the Constitution, the fourth of the original 13 colonies to do so ... a swath of reforms to protect American democracy.

Around 1750, the British mainland American colonies had a population of approximately 1.5 million. In addition to settlers from Great Britain, a steady stream of German immigrants began to arrive ...