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The Province of Maryland became the eighth of the thirteen colonies to appoint a committee of correspondence on October 15, 1773. [6] The Maryland committee stated that there was an "absolute necessity of a general and firm union of sister colonies to preserve common liberties", and called for a meeting of this union to be held in Philadelphia. [7]
The 13 colonies had a degree of self-governance and active local elections, [a] and they resisted London's demands for more control over them. The French and Indian War (1754–1763) against France and its Indian allies led to growing tensions between Britain and the 13 colonies. During the 1750s, the colonies began collaborating with one ...
The thirteen colonies were all founded with royal authorization, and authority continued to flow from the monarch as colonial governments exercised authority in the king's name. [8] A colony's precise relationship to the Crown depended on whether it was a corporate colony , proprietary colony or royal colony as defined in its colonial charter .
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It was composed of several colonies: Acadia, Canada, Newfoundland, Louisiana, Île-Royale (present-day Cape Breton Island), and Île Saint Jean (present-day Prince Edward Island). These colonies came under British or Spanish control after the French and Indian War, though France briefly re-acquired a portion of Louisiana in 1800. The United ...
Historical documents from the Thirteen Colonies that would form the United States. Pages in category "Thirteen Colonies documents" The following 16 pages are in this category, out of 16 total.
The category includes articles on the history of the European Thirteen Colonies on the east coast of present day United States, before the American Revolutionary War See also: Category:Colonization history of the United States , Category:Pre-statehood history of U.S. states , and Category:European colonization of the Americas
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