USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -A colony is a piece of land controlled by another country. The metropolitan state is the country that owns the colony. The phrase dependent territory is now used instead of colony.

Detailed explanation-2: -A dependent territory, dependent area, or dependency (sometimes referred as an external territory) is a territory that does not possess full political independence or sovereignty as a sovereign state, yet remains politically outside the controlling state’s integral area.

Detailed explanation-3: -To colonize is to settle in, and take control of, land outside your own borders. Usually, a large, powerful country colonizes a territory or area that’s much less powerful.

Detailed explanation-4: -In modern parlance, a colony is a territory subject to a form of foreign rule. Though dominated by the foreign colonizers, colonies remain separate from the administration of the original country of the colonizers, the metropolitan state (or “mother country").

Detailed explanation-5: -In fact, there were three different types of colonies: royal, self-governing, and proprietary. Royal colonies were owned and completely administered by the Crown.