Thirteen Colonies
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- Virginia
- home to four of the first five presidents
- South Carolina
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once a part of "Carolana" with NC nickname Palmetto State
(fortress of pamls kept British warship away from Charleston Harbor in 1776 battle) - Name the original thirteen colonies.
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Connecticut
Delaware
Georgia
Maryland, Massachusetts
New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York
North Carolina, South Carolina
Pennsylvania
Rhode Island
Virginia - North Carolina
- First child born in America was John White's granddaughter, Virginia
- New York
- US Congress met here after revolution
- Pennsylvania
- nickname the keystone state It is the center of the arch of the 13 colonies.
- Delaware
- the first state
- The thirteen colonies were under the rule of the kings and queens of England.
- over
- New Hampshire
- became state June 21, 1788
- Maryland
- part of stste became Washington D.C.
- Rhode Island
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smallest colony and state
not an island - Connecticut
- the constitution state
- Whose rule were the thirteen colonies?
- The kings and queens of England
- Georgia
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Last colony settled
4th to ratify the constitution and become a state - Massachusetts
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Codfish was a big industry
had a wooden codfish carved on the state house - Which two colonies had the largest populations?
- Virginia and Massachusetts
- What countries did the colonist come from in addition to England?
- Scotland, Ireland, Germany, the Netherlands, France, Sweden
- New Jersey
- Land was given to the governor of the Isle of Jersey
- What was the nationality of most of the colonist?
- English