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A General Map of the Middle British Colonies in America (Philadelphia, 1755) was drawn by Lewis Evans and printed from a copper plate engraved by James Turner. The map’s coverage extends from Montreal, New France, to the northeast, south as far as Suffolk, Virginia, and westward into the Ohio River valley, a region disputed between Britain and France; the further Ohio country is depicted in ...
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The Ohio Country (Ohio Territory, [a] Ohio Valley[b]) was a name used for a loosely defined region of colonial North America west of the Appalachian Mountains and south of Lake Erie. Control of the territory and the region's fur trade was disputed in the 17th century by the Iroquois, Huron, Algonquin, other Native American tribes, and France.
- English Colonial Expansion. Sixteenth-century England was a tumultuous place. Because they could make more money from selling wool than from selling food, many of the nation’s landowners were converting farmers’ fields into pastures for sheep.
- The Tobacco Colonies. In 1606, King James I divided the Atlantic seaboard in two, giving the southern half to the London Company (later the Virginia Company) and the northern half to the Plymouth Company.
- The New England Colonies. The first English emigrants to what would become the New England colonies were a small group of Puritan separatists, later called the Pilgrims, who arrived in Plymouth in 1620 to found Plymouth Colony.
- The Middle Colonies. In 1664, King Charles II gave the territory between New England and Virginia, much of which was already occupied by Dutch traders and landowners called patroons, to his brother James, the Duke of York.
Sep 8, 2019 · Settlement by French and English colonists began in earnest in the early 1600s in what many Europeans had come to call the New World. Of course, it was not new at all. Spanish and Portuguese settl…
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Apr 6, 2021 · Pennsylvania – founded 1681. Southern Colonies: Virginia – founded 1607. Maryland – founded 1632. Carolina (later North and South Carolina) – founded 1663. Georgia – founded 1733. Florida (after 1763) After 1619, slavery was steadily institutionalized in Virginia until slave laws were established by the House of Burgesses in the 1660s ...
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The 13 colonies had a degree of self-governance and active local elections, [a] and they resisted London's demands for more control over them. The French and Indian War (1754–1763) against France and its Indian allies led to growing tensions between Britain and the 13 colonies. During the 1750s, the colonies began collaborating with one ...
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Feb 13, 2012 · The Southern Colonies were known for their large plantations, which meant that agriculture drove their economy. The Middle Colonies shared the fertile land of the Southern Colonies, and many large fields of wheat could be found, and they shared the industry of timber and fishing. This, coupled with religious freedom, gave more options to ...
