SETTLING NORTH AMERICA 1497 1732
THE SOUTHERN COLONIES SETTLEMENT AND GROWTH
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Detailed explanation-1: -Within a century and a half the British had 13 flourishing colonies on the Atlantic coast: Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, Pennsylvania, Delaware, New Jersey, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia.
Detailed explanation-2: -By the 1700s, most of the settlements had formed into 13 British colonies: Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, New Jersey, Virginia, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and South Carolina.
Detailed explanation-3: -It was those colonies that came together to form the United States. The original 13 colonies of North America in 1776, at the United States Declaration of Independence.
Detailed explanation-4: -They created 13 colonies on the East Coast of the continent. Later, when the colonists won independence, these colonies became the 13 original states. Each colony had its own government, but the British king controlled these governments.