WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The 13 colonies were a group of settlements that became the original states of the United States of America. Nearly all the colonies were founded by the English, and all were located along the East Coast of North America.

Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -The Appalachian Mountain system extended some 1, 300 miles along the colonial backcountry, from New Hampshire’s White Mountains south to the highlands of Georgia. The great mountain range called the Appalachians could not be seen from the Atlantic shore and few people even knew it existed before 1675.

Detailed explanation-4: -The 13 original states were New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia. The 13 original states were the first 13 British colonies. British colonists traveled across the Atlantic Ocean from Europe.

Detailed explanation-5: -While the French moved into the north and the Spanish settled in the south and west, the British founded colonies on the east coast. The British settlers came to these new lands for many reasons. Some wanted to make money or set up trade with their home country while others wanted religious freedom.