The English who had settled in Jamestown and, over the rest of the 17th century, in the other British North American colonies soon reached a turning point. Would they continue to hire Europeans ...

The first permanent English settlement was ... This region included Virginia, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia. In the American colonies, governing structures varied widely.

By the 1860s, Britain was growing tired of maintaining its colonies. The costs, especially of defending British North America, were burdens that a growing number of British politicians could do ...

In that article we dedicated to the tragic end of the Dutch Prime Minister and his brother in 1672, we explained that the ...

French-speakers made up almost a third of the population and the rest were mostly English speaking ... mind would help shape the British colonies of North America into one nation.

Around 1750, the British mainland American colonies had ... massive flight of Scots-Irish to the colonies. The majority of white colonists resided in the North, but the majority of black people ...