A charter is a document that gives colonies the legal rights to exist. Charters can bestow certain rights on a town, city, university, or other institution...

constitution. After the Thirteen Colonies had become the United States, the experience under colonial rule would inform and shape the new state constitutions...

The Thirteen Colonies were a group of British colonies on the Atlantic coast of North America during the 17th and 18th centuries. Grievances against the...

The Southern Colonies within British America consisted of the Province of Maryland, the Colony of Virginia, the Province of Carolina (in 1712 split into...

The Middle Colonies were a subset of the Thirteen Colonies in British America, located between the New England Colonies and the Southern Colonies. Along...

still able to retain a liberal charter from England. Proprietary colony Royal colony Colonial charters in the Thirteen Colonies Somers Isles Company Providence...

incorporation of the Thirteen Colonies into the United States after the Revolutionary War. In the late 16th century, England, France, Spain, and the Dutch Republic...

Thirteen Colonies in 1775 and 1776, before and as independence was declared. Continental currency banknotes displayed the name 'The United Colonies'...

the Crown via royal charters into one of three types of colony; proprietary colonies, charter colonies and Crown colonies. Under the proprietary system...

their citizenships in 1983, actually violated the rights granted them by royal charters at the founding of the colonies. Bermuda (fully The Somers Isles or...

state. The Times once quipped that there were three types of colonial empire: "The English, which consists in making colonies with colonists; the German...

The situation of the Catholic Church in the Thirteen Colonies was characterized by an extensive religious persecution originating from Protestant sects...

European colonies in the Americas, notably those of Spain, New France, and the Thirteen Colonies, gained their independence from their metropole. The Kingdom...

British colonies. The Colony of Virginia was the first of the thirteen colonies. All thirteen declared independence in July 1776 and expelled the British...

Education in the Thirteen Colonies during the 17th and 18th centuries varied considerably. Public school systems existed only in New England. In the 18th Century...

The colonial colleges are nine institutions of higher education chartered in the Thirteen Colonies before the founding of the United States of America...

colonization of the Americas Thirteen Colonies Keynes, Simon. "Edward, King of the Anglo-Saxons" in N. J. Higham & D. H. Hill, Edward the Elder 899-924...

Slavery in the colonial history of the United States refers to the institution of slavery that existed in the European colonies in North America which...

the colony (the willow, the oak, and the pine tree shilling) in 1652. Because few coins were minted in the Thirteen Colonies, which later became the United...

English colonies in North America. In a charter colony, the King granted a royal charter to the colonial government establishing the rules under which the colony...

in 1640 to around 75,000 in 1660. The colonies also became more ethnically and religiously diverse. Another effect was the establishment of colonial assemblies...

The Province of Georgia (also Georgia Colony) was one of the Southern Colonies in colonial-era British America. In 1775 it was the last of the Thirteen...

comprised the colonial territories of the English Empire, and the successor British Empire, in the Americas from 1607 to 1783. These colonies were formally...

and the Province of New Hampshire, as well as a few smaller short-lived colonies. The New England colonies were part of the Thirteen Colonies and eventually...

the Thirteen Colonies regarded themselves as independent sovereign states no longer subject to British colonial rule. The 56 delegates who signed the...

The British Empire comprised the dominions, colonies, protectorates, mandates, and other territories ruled or administered by the United Kingdom and its...

paper used throughout the colonies, and it had to be paid in British currency, not in colonial paper money. The purpose of the tax was to pay for British...

around the Massachusetts Bay, one of the several colonies later reorganized as the Province of Massachusetts Bay. The lands of the settlement were in southern...

The Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations was one of the original Thirteen Colonies established on the east coast of America, bordering the...

The American Revolution was a rebellion and political movement in the Thirteen Colonies which peaked when colonists initiated an ultimately successful...