Achieving independence as the United States of America was a lengthy and unlikely struggle for the 13 original colonies. Over ...

From 1619 on, not long after the first settlement ... 1700s: Almost half of the slaves coming to North America arrive in Charleston. Many stay in South Carolina to work on rice plantations.

Q: Why are so many counties and cities in the original 13 colonies still ... Still, for people living in the 13 colonies—free or enslaved—the American Revolution changed life much less ...

Indentured servants first arrived in America in the decade ... one-half to two-thirds of the immigrants who came to the American colonies arrived as indentured servants. Servants typically worked ...

It was the first of the Coercive, or Intolerable Acts, five laws passed by the British Parliament to suppress resistance to its authority over the American colonies. The second act, the ...

In July 1776—upon agreeing to the United States Declaration of Independence—the first 13 colonies were on their way to becoming the first states of the United States of America. But what state ...

Left to right: William Murray, First Earl of Mansfield ... He advocated heavily for England’s control over the American Colonies, often in uncompromising terms: “If you do not kill them ...