American colonies
Britain's Atlantic possessions
The American colonies were the British settlements along the eastern seaboard of North America that became the United States.
The thirteen colonies—from Massachusetts to Georgia—declared independence in 1776.
The term appears in historical contexts: life in the American colonies, the American colonies rebelled against British rule.
- PuritanismProtestant reform movement
- mercantilismTrade policy favoring exports
- Declaration of IndependenceAmerica's founding proclamation
- New EnglandNortheast U.S. region
- Revolutionary WarColonial uprising against Britain
Chesapeake Bay · Jamestown · Pilgrims · French and Indian War · Common Sense · Founding Fathers · triangular trade · indentured servitude · Stamp Act · Great Awakening · Mayflower Compact · slavery · religious tolerance · religious freedom · Boston Tea Party · plantation system · town meetings · cash crops
- Colonial AmericaGeorge Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Ben Franklin, Benjamin Franklin, Declaration of Independence
- coloniesPlymouth, Jamestown, British India, Dutch East Indies, French Indochina
- colonialismBritish Empire, colonizers, protectorate, colonists, settlers
- Georgian BritainGeorge III, Walpole, Culloden, Georgian era, Regency period
- Spanish HistoryReconquista, Spanish Inquisition, Spanish Empire, conquistadors, Catholic Monarchs
- Spanish economyeconomic growth, economic decline, economic reforms, peseta, debt crisis
American coloniesUnited States of America
North American federal republic
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American coloniesBritish Empire
Vast colonial domain
mother country · Great Britain · colonial power · Westminster · England
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