ORIGINAL 13 COLONIESAugust 26, 2009

New York used to be known as ____?

New Netherlands. Also known as New Amsterdam, New York was given the name "York" because England's King Charles II, had given the colony to his sibling, the Duke of York. The correct answer was New Netherlands. New Netherlands had been set up by the Dutch.

FIRST 13 COLONIES OF UNITED STATE

WHAT ARE 13 COLONIES?Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode I s l and , Connec t i cu t , New York , Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia.

DATES OF EXPANSION...Despite the fact that American Revolutionary war against Britain took placed for 8 years, the British approved the independence of the original thirteen colonies at the Treaty of Paris in 1783. Today, the Independence day is celebrated at July 4, 1776, the day they signed the Declaration, not the day that the war took place. How the U.S. acquired the territory?

DATES OF EXPANSION...Originally the 13 colonies were part of British America, until 1775, when the thirteen colonies revolted against Britain. This revolt is known as the American Revolutionary War. The cause for the war is the colonies dislike of the parliamentary system, which made governing the colonies without a representative elected legal. Thus, 13 colonies planned to create a self-governing independent states, leading them to the American Revolutionary War.

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MINI -PROJECT1 3 C O L O N I E SVS.B R I T I S HGeorgia, America's thirteenth colony, was founded for a certain group of people. Who were these people?

Debtors. Debtors are people who owe money and for some reason cannot pay the money back. Therefore, Georgia was created so that they could have a fresh start in life.

FUN FACTS ABOUT 13

COLONIES!!!

13 STARS&

13 STRIPS

MOST OF THE COLONIES WERE LOCATED AT EAST COAST

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Life in the Thirteen Colonies... The thirteen colonies were the signified the start of an independent colonies gained independence,are to be focused on are economy,and the political change.

The economic change was one of the change. Each colonies were based on based their economy on fishing. quality of the soil. The Middle colonies They had rich soils for farming and factoriestextile. The Southern because plantation was Plantations grew tobacco, and traded with point is that the colonies were trading with

In the war, the First Nations, an abor ig inal g roup of people, participated the American Revolution War as the ally of British, but the Treaty of Paris only included British and US, ignoring the First Nation. The First Nation’s land became the property of US, which caused the First Nation people to flee towards north.

first territory the United States obtained, nation and later on. After the thirteen various factors changed. The factors that population, natural resources, the slavery, factors that went through the biggest

Farming was not popular due to the poor were evenly distributed. that produced iron, and paper the basis of their economy. Britain. The most important Britain after independence.

The natural resources were different for the colonies. The Northern colonies had the worst climate due to its geographical location but their resources were fish, and animal furs. The Middle colonies had both irons and rich soils, which made them evenly distributed in both agriculture and industrial, however, one disadvantage they had was the long winter. The Southern colonies had the warmest climate, making them most prosperous in farming. Their natural resources were rich land, forests, and fish.

different factors. The Northern colonies

YEARS POPULATION

1625 2,980

1641 50,000

1688 200,000

1702 270,000

1715 434,600

1749 1,046,000

1754 1,485,634

1765 2,240,000

1775 2,418,000

POPULATION

* This chart excludes the native tribes

PLANTATION: large plot of land that contained great acres of farmland and buildings in which workers and owners lived together.

NORTHERN COLONIES

SOUTHERN COLONIES

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SLAVERY CONTINUANCE

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Politics:

The thirteen colonies developed their own system for politics. They didn’t favor the political system Britain had, the monarchy, so came up with a unique system. They divided the entire colonies into three groups: proprietary colonies, royal colonies, and charter colonies. Proprietary colonies are small groups of me who owned vast amount of lands and had certain authority in one’s region. Royal colonies were the king’s patents. The charter colonies were both parliament and the king, and their authority came from the charter.

“ We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”

- Declaration of Independence

CHARTER: a document that gave colonies legal rights to exist.

TITLE ROLES

Proprietary Bourgeois

Royal Upper Class

Charter King (highest)

Simply, the roles of the titles are....

Conclusion: Gaining the thirteen colonies was definitely a positive choice because it was the

very first territory that United States acquired and it also signified the start of an

independent nation. Free from Britain’s control, the United States slowly but constantly

developed from their current status. They developed their own currency system, political

system, and made laws to have their rights secured within one’s nation. All this done due

to the unification of the colonies. All thirteen colonies, although they were thinking each

other as a separate nation, the thirteen colonies unification under one objective made the

current United States of America. In Britain’s point of view, the independence of the

thirteen colonies wasn’t positive because they lost more than just lands. The British had to

trade with the thirteen colonies to obtain a product, which they took it without any

payment in the past. Another formation of independent nation meant

the possibility of competition. The independence of the thirteen colonies resulted both

positive and negative reaction for two different nations.