Colonial America

:For colonies not among the 13 colonies see European colonization of the Americas or British colonization of the Americas.

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13 colonies - European colonization of the Americas - British colonization of the Americas

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Starting in the late 16th century, the English began to colonize North America. The first attempts, notably the Colony of Roanoke, resulted in failure, but successful colonies were soon established. The colonists who came to the New World were by no means a homogeneous band, but rather a variety of different social and religious groups which settled in different locations on the seaboard. The Quakers of Pennsylvania, the Puritans of New England, the gold-hungry settlers of Jamestown, and the convicts of Georgia each came to the new continent for vastly different reasons, and they created colonies with very different social, religious, political, and economic structures.

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16th century - English - North America - Colony of Roanoke - New World - Quakers - Pennsylvania - Puritans - New England - Jamestown - Convict - Georgia - Social - Religious - Political - Economic

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To summarize the areas of development in colonial America, historians typically recognize four regions in the lands that later became the eastern United States. Listed from north to south, they are: New England, the Middle Colonies, the Chesapeake Bay Colonies and the Southern Colonies. Some historians add a fifth region – the frontier had certain unifying features no matter what sort of colony it sprang from. By the late 18th century, these different colonies found themselves more closely united than ever before, at odds with the British government on issues of taxation and representation.

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New England - Middle Colonies - Chesapeake Bay Colonies - Southern Colonies - Frontier - 18th century - British - Taxation - Representation

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