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The colonization of the United States resulted in a large decline of the Native American population primarily because of newly introduced diseases. [3] A significant percentage of the Native Americans living in the eastern region had been ravaged by disease before 1620, possibly introduced to them decades before by explorers and sailors ...
Conflict between the various European empires and the indigenous peoples was a leading dynamic in the Americas into the 1800s, although some parts of the continent gained their independence from Europe by then, countries such as the United States continued to fight against Native Americans and practiced settler colonialism.
Concession of the United States in Panama First administered under the Isthmian Canal Commission, but later governorship was awarded for the Panama Canal Zone [4] Haiti: 1915–1934 Military occupation Occupied for the financial interests of the United States in the stabilization of Haiti, a part of the Banana Wars [5] Dominican Republic: 1916 ...
Aden Protectorate; Akrotiri and Dhekelia; Anglo-Egyptian Sudan; Ashanti; Australia. Colony of New South Wales; Colony of Queensland; Colony of Tasmania; Colony of Victoria
British America (New Britain) Canada. Island of St. John; Rupert's Land (A private estate stretching from the Atlantic to the Rocky Mountains, and from the prairies to the Arctic Circle. [1]) Lower Canada. Province of Quebec; Upper Canada; Newfoundland Colony "Thirteen Colonies" (The United States of America) New England Colonies: Province of ...
1519: Álvarez de Pineda explores the Gulf Coast of the United States; 1519: Founding of Panama City by Pedro Arias Dávila; 1521: Hernán Cortés completes the conquest of the Aztec Empire. 1521: Juan Ponce de León tries and fails to settle in Florida. 1524: Pedro de Alvarado conquers present-day Guatemala and El Salvador.
A small proportion of the English population migrated to America after 1700, but the colonies attracted new immigrants from other European countries. These immigrants traveled to all of the colonies, but the Middle Colonies attracted the most and continued to be more ethnically diverse than the other colonies. [ 40 ]
Colonial United States (Spanish) (12 C, 71 P) Pages in category "Colonization history of the United States" The following 53 pages are in this category, out of 53 total.