the u.s. is 50 states strong today but
it began as 13 small colonies it all
started with Virginia when wealthy
London businessmen asked the British
King to set up shop in what was known as
the new world 104 British colonists
settled at James to performing the first
permanent American colony next up
Massachusetts founded after being
established by the pilgrims who sailed
the Mayflower to Plymouth six years
later new york was pioneered by the
dutch who called its new amsterdam
maryland which became home to Puritans
Quakers and Catholics who didn't always
get along was established in 1634
Maryland was followed by Connecticut
when 100 Puritans left Massachusetts to
start a new colony at Hartford and Rhode
Island which was originally called red
island by the Dutch Delaware New
Hampshire which at various points were
part of Maryland and Massachusetts came
next Virginian colonists established
North Carolina ten years before South
Carolina was granted a charter forming
one Carolina colony until 1712 New
Jersey was first settled in 1664 though
the small future Garden State was
actually in two parts for nearly 40
years
Pennsylvania was granted to William Penn
in 1681 in payment for a dead the
British King old Penn's father
that leaves Georgia which was
established as a penal colony for
English debtors and a buffer zone
between the British colonies and Florida
which was controlled by the Spanish
Spain held on to Florida until 1821 a
full forty five years after the original
thirteen colonies became the United
States of America
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