CONTENTS INTRODUCTION 6 CHAPTER ONE FOUNDING OF THE 13 COLONIES 10 CHAPTER TWO LIFE IN THE AMERICAN COLONIES 25 CHAPTER THREE PRESSURES FROM ABROAD AND AT HOME 38 CHAPTER FOUR PRELUDE TO REVOLUTION 52 CONCLUSION 65 TIMELINE 67 GLOSSARY 69 FOR MORE INFORMATION 71 BIBLIOGRAPHY 76 INDEX 78
INTRODUCTION When considering the history of the United States many people begin with an era known as the Colonial Period even though the land was inhabited long before then The Colonial Period was a time when Europeans traveled to the New World to establish permanent settlements The 13 colonies were a group of settlements that became the original states of the United States of America Nearly all the colonies were founded by the English and all were located along the East Coast of North America In 1776 the 13 colonies declared their independence from Great Britain The names of the colonies were Connecticut Delaware Georgia Maryland Massachusetts New Hampshire New Jersey New York North Carolina Pennsylvania Rhode Island South Carolina and Virginia In 1607 English settlers founded Jamestown Virginia the first permanent English settlement in North America and in 1624 Virginia became a royal colony The Puritans known as the Pilgrims founded Plymouth the second English colony in America in 1620 New Hampshire was settled in 1623 but it did not gain its name until 1629 In 1630 another group of Puritans founded the Massachusetts Bay Colony Massachusetts 6
The Colonial Period
Readers will learn about the colonies' early societies, governments, and trades.
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