But how did these British colonies evolve into the United States of America? Let’s take a journey through history and explore what made these colonies tick. Imagine the 1600s: The British ...

Around 1750, the British mainland American colonies had a population of approximately ... a steady stream of German immigrants began to arrive in the late 1600s and reached its peak between ...

In the 1600s, colonization was made possible through ... British ships were banned from trading with other countries in the Mother Country. British traders were forbidden to trade with colonies run by ...

The shift from indentured servitude to racial slavery in the British colonies is evident in the development of the colonies' laws. • Virginia, 1639: The first law to exclude "Negroes" from ...

In the 18th century, Britain had a well-established empire of colonies in the Americas. By 1740, the British government had allowed thirteeen colonies to develop in British America. The British ...