Thirteen_Colonies

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Thirteen Colonies Thirteen Colonies History of the United States Coat of Arms of the United States This article is part of a series Timeline Pre-Columbian period Colonial period 1776 – 1789 1789 – 1849 1849 – 1865 1865 – 1918 1918 – 1945 1945 – 1964 1964 – 1980 1980 – 1991 1991 - 2001 2000s Topic Westward expansion Overseas expansion Diplomatic history Military history Technological and industrial history Economic history Cultural history History of the South Civil Rights (1896–1954) Civil Rights (1955–1968) Women’s history LGBT rights in the United States United States Portal America in 1783. These British colonies in North America rebelled against British rule in 1775, this was due to the taxation that Great Britain was imposing on the colonies. A provisional government was formed which proclaimed their independence, which is now celebrated as having occurred on July 4, 1776, and subsequently became the original thirteen United States of America. The colonies were founded between 1607 (Virginia), and 1733 (Georgia), although Great Britain held several other colonies in North America and the West Indies which did not join the rebellion in 1775. The Thirteen Colonies gave rise to 18 present-day states: the original 13 states (in chronological order: Delaware, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Georgia, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maryland, South Carolina, New Hampshire, Virginia, New York, North Carolina, Rhode Island), Vermont (which had been disputed between New Hampshire and New York and which was an independent republic from 1777 to 1791), Kentucky (formerly part of Virginia until 1792), Tennessee (formerly part of North Carolina until 1796), Maine (formerly part of Massachusetts until 1820), and West Virginia (also formerly part of Virginia until 1863). The Colonies The Thirteen Colonies were part of what became known as British America, a name that was used by Great Britain until the Treaty of Paris recognized the independence of the original thirteen United States of British colonies in North America, circa 1750. 1: Newfoundland; 2: Nova Scotia; 3: The Thirteen Colonies; 4: Bermuda; 5: Bahamas; 6: British Honduras; 7: Jamaica; 8: Lesser Antilles 1 From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Thirteen Colonies North American colonies 1763-76 Map of current US states that are direct successor states of the original Thirteen Colonies that declared independence from Great Britain in 1776. Indirect successor states (Maine, West Virginia), the District of Columbia and states that acceded to the union after the American Revolutionary War are not included • Middle Colonies • Province of New York, later New York and Vermont[1] • Province of New Jersey, later New Jersey • Province of Pennsylvania, later Pennsylvania • Delaware Colony (before 1776, the Lower Counties on Delaware), later Delaware • Southern Colonies (depending on the subject under discussion, Virginia and Maryland may be grouped as the Chesapeake Colonies) • Province of Maryland, later Maryland • Colony and Dominion of Virginia, later Virginia, Kentucky and West Virginia • Province of North Carolina, later North Carolina and Tennessee • Province of South Carolina, later South Carolina • Province of Georgia, later Georgia In 1775, the British claimed authority over the red and pink areas on this map and Spain ruled the orange. The red area is the area of the thirteen colonies open to settlement after the Proclamation of 1763 Contemporaneous documents usually list the thirteen revolutionary colonies of British North America in geographical order, from north to south. • New England Colonies • Province of New Hampshire, later New Hampshire • Province of Massachusetts Bay, later Massachusetts and Maine • Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, later Rhode Island • Connecticut Colony, later Connecticut Other divisions prior to 1730 Population (Note: the population figures do not account for the native tribes who originally resided there.) Year Population 1625 1,980 2 From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 1641 50,000 1688 200,000 1702 270,000 1715 434,600 1749 1,046,000 1754 1,485,634 1765 2,240,000 1775 2,418,000 At the time of the Revolutionary War, approximately 85 per cent of the white population was of English, Irish, Welsh, and Scottish descent. Persons of German origin represented 8.8 per cent of the white population, and those of Dutch origin represented 3.5 per cent of the colonists. [2] Thirteen Colonies • American Revolution • History of the United States • British colonization of the Americas Notes [1] The present State of Vermont was disputed between the colonies of New York and New Hampshire. From 1777 to 1791, it existed as the de facto independent Vermont Republic. [2] Greene References • Cooke, Jacob Ernest et al., ed. Encyclopedia of the North American Colonies. Scribner’s, 1993. 3 vol; 2397 pp. • Gipson, Lawrence. The British Empire Before the American Revolution (15 volumes) (1936-1970), Pulitzer Prize; highly detailed discussion of every British colony in the New World • Greene, Evarts Boutelle et al., American Population before the Federal Census of 1790, 1993, ISBN 0806313773 • Greene, Evarts Boutelle. Provincial America, 1690-1740. 1905. online • Osgood, Herbert L. The American Colonies in the Seventeenth Century. 4 vol Columbia University Press, 1904-07. online • Vickers, Daniel, ed. A Companion to Colonial America. Blackwell, 2003. 576 pp. See also • • • • • • • New England Colonies Middle Colonies Southern Colonies Chesapeake Colonies British North America Colonial America Colonial government in the Thirteen Colonies • History of the United States (1776-1789): Independence and the American Revolution Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirteen_Colonies" Categories: 1783 disestablishments, Cultural lists, Former British colonies, Thirteen Colonies This page was last modified on 19 May 2009, at 03:50 (UTC). All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License. (See Copyrights for details.) Wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., a U.S. registered 501(c)(3) taxdeductible nonprofit charity. Privacy policy About Wikipedia Disclaimers 3