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    Education in the Thirteen Colonies during the 17th and 18th centuries varied considerably. Public school systems existed only in New England. In the 18th...
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    The Thirteen Colonies were a group of British colonies on the Atlantic coast of North America during the 17th and 18th centuries. Grievances against the...
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    The situation of the Catholic Church in the Thirteen Colonies was characterized by an extensive religious persecution originating from Protestant sects...
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  • celebrated in the United States as the official beginning of the nation, with the Declaration of Independence of the Thirteen Colonies from the British Empire...
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    and the Chesapeake First Families of Virginia History of White Americans in Baltimore Old Stock Americans Province of Maryland Thirteen Colonies Middle...
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    and the Province of New Hampshire, as well as a few smaller short-lived colonies. The New England colonies were part of the Thirteen Colonies and eventually...
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    The United Colonies was the name used by the Second Continental Congress in Philadelphia to describe the proto-state comprising the Thirteen Colonies...
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    Dame school (category Women's education in the United States)
    Kingdom) Education in early modern Scotland History of childhood care and education Education in the Thirteen Colonies History of education in the United...
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    substantially with the founding of the Thirteen Colonies along the Atlantic coast of North America. The British Empire's colonial territories in North America...
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  • similar laws were enacted in the other New England colonies. Most mid-Atlantic colonies followed suit, though in some Southern colonies it was a further century...
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    hereditary. The Thirteen Colonies of northern British America, were for much or all of the period less dependent on slavery than the Caribbean colonies, or those...
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    1693 – The College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia, the second-oldest institution of higher education in the Thirteen Colonies, is granted...
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    The American Revolution was a rebellion and political revolution in the Thirteen Colonies, which culminated in colonists initiating an ultimately successful...
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    British Empire (redirect from UK colonies)
    The British Empire comprised the dominions, colonies, protectorates, mandates, and other territories ruled or administered by the United Kingdom and its...
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    incorporation of the Thirteen Colonies into the United States after the Revolutionary War. In the late 16th century, England, France, Spain, and the Dutch Republic...
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    the Thirteen Colonies regarded themselves as independent sovereign states no longer subject to British colonial rule. The 56 delegates who signed the...
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  • original Thirteen Colonies when the United States of America was founded in 1776. List of the oldest buildings in Alabama List of the oldest buildings in Alaska...
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    In the United States, education is provided in public and private schools and by individuals through homeschooling. State governments set overall educational...
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  • The Puritans in the New England colonies supported education. The aim of Puritan instruction was for children to be able to read and interpret the Bible...
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    before the other colonies. This shift in popular opinion was of considerable influence to the other colonies, who were divided in their opinions of the propriety...
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    Continental Association (category 1774 in the Thirteen Colonies)
    Ireland, and the British West Indies. It also threatened an export ban on any products from the Thirteen Colonies to Britain, Ireland, or the West Indies...
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    and the Thirteen Colonies over a variety of issues, including the Stamp and Townshend Acts. The resulting British military occupation led to the Boston...
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    group of people. Implemented through the establishment of coloniality and possibly colonies, this colonization keeps the colonized territory and people socio-economically...
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    Colony (redirect from Colonies)
    British colonies. The Colony of Virginia was the first of the thirteen colonies. All thirteen declared independence in July 1776 and expelled the British...
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    Quebec Act (redirect from The Quebec Act)
    court procedure, and criminal prosecution. In Quebec, English-speaking immigrants from the Thirteen Colonies fiercely objected to a variety of its provisions...
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    Puritan migration to New England (1620–1640) (category Immigrants to the Thirteen Colonies)
    the migration in the period of English Puritans to the New England Colonies, starting with Plymouth Colony and Massachusetts Bay Colony. They came in...
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    areas in the Northeast and Southeast. The region has its origin in the Middle Colonies of the 18th century, its states being among the Thirteen Colonies of...
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    Abraham op den Graeff (category Dutch emigrants to the Thirteen Colonies)
    impetus for the rejection of slavery. The 13 families from Krefeld had heard about the slave trade in the American colonies for the first time in Rotterdam...
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    notably those of Spain, New France, and the Thirteen Colonies, gained their independence from their metropole. The Kingdom of Great Britain (uniting Scotland...
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    delegations were from the Thirteen Colonies that eventually launched the American Revolution, breaking from British colonialism to form the United States. Although...
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