USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The English monarch had ultimate authority over all of the colonies. A group of royal advisers called the Privy Council set English colonial policies. Each colony had a governor who served as head of the government. Most governors were assisted by an advisory council.

Detailed explanation-2: -The planters of the tidewater region, supported by slave labor, held most of the political power and the best land.

Detailed explanation-3: -The American colonies were the British colonies that were established during the 17th and early 18th centuries in what is now a part of the eastern United States. The colonies grew both geographically along the Atlantic coast and westward and numerically to 13 from the time of their founding to the American Revolution.

Detailed explanation-4: -Each colony had its own government, but the British king controlled these governments. By the 1770s, many colonists were angry because they did not have self-government. This meant that they could not govern themselves and make their own laws. They had to pay high taxes to the king.

Detailed explanation-5: -Continental Congress, 1774–1781. The Continental Congress was the governing body by which the American colonial governments coordinated their resistance to British rule during the first two years of the American Revolution.