Thirteen Colonies on the Atlantic coast of North America
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The Thirteen Colonies, also known as the Thirteen British Colonies, the Thirteen American Colonies, or later as the
United Colonies , were a group of
British colonies on the Atlantic coast of
North America . Founded in the 17th and 18th centuries, they began fighting the
American Revolutionary War in April 1775 and formed the
United States of America by
declaring full independence in July 1776. Just prior to declaring independence, the Thirteen Colonies in their traditional groupings were: New England (
New Hampshire ;
Massachusetts ;
Rhode Island ;
Connecticut ); Middle (
New York ;
New Jersey ;
Pennsylvania ;
Delaware ); Southern (
Maryland ;
Virginia ;
North Carolina ;
South Carolina ; and
Georgia ). The Thirteen Colonies came to have very similar political, constitutional, and legal systems, dominated by
Protestant English-speakers. The first of these colonies was
Virginia Colony in 1607, a
Southern colony . While all these colonies needed to become economically viable, the founding of the
New England colonies , as well as the colonies of Maryland and Pennsylvania, were substantially motivated by their founders’ concerns related to the practice of religion. The other colonies were founded for business and economic expansion. The
Middle Colonies were established on an earlier Dutch colony,
New Netherland . All the Thirteen Colonies were part of
Britain’s possessions in the New World , which also included territory in
Canada ,
Florida , and the
Caribbean .
The colonial population grew from about 2,000 to 2.4 million between 1625 and 1775, displacing Native Americans . This population included people subject to a system of slavery which was legal in all of the colonies prior to the American Revolutionary War . In the 18th century, the British government operated its colonies under a policy of mercantilism , in which the central government administered its possessions for the economic benefit of the mother country.
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The Thirteen Colonies had a high degree of self-governance and active local elections, and they resisted London’s demands for more control. The
French and Indian War (1754–1763) against France and its Indian allies led to growing tensions between Britain and the Thirteen Colonies. During the 1750s, the colonies began collaborating with one another instead of dealing directly with Britain. With the help of
colonial printers and newspapers these inter-colonial activities and concerns were shared and cultivated a sense of a united American identity and led to calls for protection of the colonists’ “
Rights as Englishmen “, especially the principle of “
no taxation without representation “. Conflicts with the British government over taxes and rights led to the
American Revolution , in which the colonies worked together to form the
Continental Congress . The colonists fought the American Revolutionary War (1775–1783) with the aid of the
Kingdom of France and, to a much smaller degree, the
Dutch Republic and the
Kingdom of Spain .
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