Virginia’s House of Burgesses was the American colonies’ first democratically ... House of Burgesses was the first English representative government in North America. It grew out of the ...

colonial settlements in North America consisted of some two dozen seaside towns and a handful of forts of little consequence on the coastal plains; curbed by Indigenous power, the English ...

But how much do we know about these failed colonies in North America ... with Natives dictated the end of the first English settlement in North America. A year later, colonist John White brought ...

The Nieuw-Nederland, as they were called in their language, formed the colonial province in North America of the Republic of the Seven ... entered the Atlantic, captured some English ships, and, as ...

This stopped Sweden from becoming a great international colonial power. However, one hugely important innovation the Swedes introduced to North America was their method of building log cabins ...

In 1774, British North America included 20 colonies — not only the 13 most ... It criticized Britain for violating the colonists’ “English Liberties,” demanded repeal of the Intolerable ...

Colonists at Jamestown — one of the first English colonies in North America — likely killed and ate local dogs, a new study finds. Most of the dog bones excavated at Jamestown have cut marks ...

and found that they were eaten by the settlers of the Virginia Company in Jamestown – the first permanent English settlement in North America. The findings suggest that early European colonists ...

The first English colonizers to settle in North America were forced to eat ... 17th century to reveal new insights into early colonial America. They found skeletal evidence of six dogs that ...

It was, delegates argued in their October petition to the king, an affront on English ... III established colonial rule over former French and Spanish possessions in North America after the ...

“So I hope ‘What Actually Happened In 1619’ will help people understand how slavery took root in North America. I’m hoping the upcoming event will illustrate that slavery spread to the English ...