These colonies stretched along the Atlantic coast, from New Hampshire in the north to Georgia in the south. But how did these British colonies evolve into the United States of America? Let’s ...

The two volumes have been prepared for the purpose of telling the story of the American Colonies in a manner that would meet the requirements of the general reader rather than those of the special ...

and the Colonial Development Act of 1929 was an expression of the fact that economic planning in the colonies was needed on a scale which could not be met by the private entrepreneur. Its purpose was ...

Indentured servants became vital to the colonial economy. The timing of the Virginia ... two-thirds of the immigrants who came to the American colonies arrived as indentured servants.

An American silver coin from before the American ... from the mother country and its determination to regulate its own economy,” according to the Massachusetts Historical Society.

Britain had won a victory at stupendous financial cost, which prompted its efforts to tax and regulate the colonies ... A colonial rebellion quickly turned into a civil war across British America.