Does anybody know anything about the 13 colonies?
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http://www.timepage.org/spl/13colony.html\n\nAll of the colonies are listed one by one, withs tons of info, and extra links. Enjoy!
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Colonial Massachusetts - Massachusetts was the most important northern colony, as well as an important part of New England, where many American institutions and traditions were formed. Unlike southern colonies, it was built around small towns, rather than scattered farms. The Pilgrims settled the Plymouth Colony, and Puritan settlers traveled to Salem and later to Boston in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. As the Puritans gradually secularized and became known as Yankees, the Congregational Church continued to dominate most small towns. Late in the colonial period Baptist and other dissenting churches emerged, and the elites in Boston and other cities turned to the Anglican and Unitarian religions. The colony defeated some Indian tribes in King Philip's War in the 1670s, and fought with Britain a series of French and Indian Wars that were characterized by brutal border raids, and successful attacks on Canada. \nPre-revolutionary events - Massachusetts was a center of the American Revolution, with actions by the patriots and counter-actions by the Crown (including the Intolerable Acts) a main reason for unity of the 13 colonies and the outbreak of war, starting with battles around Boston in 1775-76. Also see Boston Massacre, Boston Tea Party. \nBattles of the American Revolution - Battles of Lexington and Concord, Siege of Boston, Battle of Bunker Hill. \nFirst Governor of the Commonwealth - John Hancock was the first governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. \nShays' Rebellion - Western Massachusetts uprising after the Revolution. \nU.S. Constitution - On February 6, 1788, Massachusetts became the sixth state to ratify the United States Constitution. \nSlavery - According to a 1790 census, Massachusetts had a slave population of zero. \nDistrict of Maine - On March 15, 1820, Maine was separated from Massachusetts, of which it had been a non-contiguous part, and entered the Union as the 23rd State. (See Missouri Compromise) \nU.S. Civil War - The 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry was one of the first African-American regiments in the U.S. military. \nThe Central Artery/Tunnel Project (CA/T) - Known as the Big Dig to locals, it is the most expensive single highway construction project in the United States. The project began 1991, with final construction occurring in 2006. \nRoman Catholic Church sex abuse scandal - In 2002, the diocese was found to have knowingly moved priests who sexually molested children from parish to parish and to have covered up abuse. \nSame-sex marriage - On November 18, 2003, the Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) ruled that the state could not deny marriage rights to same-sex couples under the state constitution. Same-sex marriage is currently legal in Massachusetts. \nInvention of sports: \nCandlepin bowling was invented in Worcester, Massachusetts in 1880. \nBasketball was invented in Springfield, Massachusetts in 1891. \nVolleyball was invented in Holyoke, Massachusetts in 1895.
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Let's clear up what some of these terms mean. All the people living in the 13 colonies (except the Native Americans) were colonists. Some of the colonists thought that the 13 colonies should seperate from England and form a new nation of their own, legal or not. These were the Revolutionaries or Rebels. But other colonists thought that people of the 13 colonies should support the King and the King's laws. These were the loyalists, as they remained loyal to the (then) legitimate government.\n\nSo EVERY loyalist is a also a colonist. But not every colonist is a loyalist.
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A group of people from the original thirteen colonies who were collectively known as the delegates to the Constitutional Convention.\n\nSome of the specific names can be found at the end of the document itself.
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13, one for each colony.
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The thirteen starts represent the 13 original colonies of the United States.\nAlso, it could represent the 11 confederate states (including Kentucky and Missouri, states which were part of the confederacy though they were north of the mason-dixon line).
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these sites may help:\nhttp://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_1741502192_2/Colonial_America.html\n\nhttp://www.gutenberg.org/etext/8659
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There were actually FOUR main regional migrations during the colonial period, each mainly from a distinct part of the British Isles, and each bringing the accent (and other 'folkways') of their home area.\n\nEach of these made their own contribution to what has become known as "General American English".\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_American\n\nAn excellent study of these four groups and their distinctive folkways is David Hacket FIscher's book *Albion's Seed*.\n\nFor an overview of the distinctives of each of these four regional DIALECTS, and the contribution each dialect made to "General American English" see:\nhttp://pandora.cii.wwu.edu/vajda/ling201/test3materials/AmericanDialects.htm\n\nFor a broader overview of how the various dialects of BOTH British English and American English developed, see:\nhttp://pandora.cii.wwu.edu/vajda/ling201/test3materials/USdialectsoverhead.htm
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50 stars are for the 50 states. 13 stripes represent the original 13 colonies.
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http://www.cavehill.uwi.edu/bnccde/grenada/conference/papers/phillip.html\nhttp://www.everyculture.com/multi/Du-Ha/Grenadian-Americans.html
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Well, the early colonies didn't have techonoly, cars, music like today, movies, clothes, food, the knowledge, and the books that we have today. There are PLENTY of changes from today and the colonies. It's pretty simple if you sit down and think about it.
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Colonial Rhode Island\n\nhttp://colonialancestors.com/ri/rhodeisland.htm\n\nThe American Colonies\n\nThe history of the original 13 colonies is a tangled tale indeed. There are many ways to view the events and, in hind sight, it is easy to think you understand. But no one knew where they were headed at the time and it could have ended up very different.\n\nhttp://www.dasd-ew.org/history.htm#colonial\n\nhttp://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook12.html\n\nhttp://www.usgennet.org/usa/topic/colonial/index.html\n\nGood luck\n\nKevin, Liverpool, England.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Massachusetts
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Massachusetts- 1788\nRhode Island- 1790\nConnecticut- 1788\nNew Hampshire- 1788\nNew York- 1788\nDelaware- 1787\nNew Jersey- 1787\nPennsylvania- 1787\nVirginia- 1788\nMaryland- 1788\nNorth Carolina- 1789\nSouth Carolina- 1788\nGeorgia- 1788
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If your looking for historic info, look up slave trading routes. Slaves were stored in the bahamian islands before being brought to america, they worked the cane farms there.
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The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania was one of the original thirteen colonies. It was the second state to ratify the U.S. Constitution on December 12, 1787, after Delaware.
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Try this site: \nhttp://www.constitution.org/bcp/albany.htm\nIt wasn't very difficult to read only a couple of paragraphs bascially it was an agreement in 1754 to help the colonists and the Indians. It  was drafted by Benjamin Franklin during the French and Indian wars.