WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -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.

Detailed explanation-2: -Prior to the American Revolution, the thirteen colonies were under the rule of King George III of Britain. Each colony had separate local government all under the British Parliament.

Detailed explanation-3: -Nearly all the colonies were founded by the English, and all were located along the East Coast of North America. In 1776 the 13 colonies declared their independence from Great Britain.

Detailed explanation-4: -Colonial Governments Each of the thirteen colonies had a charter, or written agreement between the colony and the king of England or Parliament. Charters of royal colonies provided for direct rule by the king. A colonial legislature was elected by property holding males.

Detailed explanation-5: -The first English emigrants to what would become the New England colonies were a small group of Puritan separatists, later called the Pilgrims, who arrived in Plymouth in 1620 to found Plymouth Colony.