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  2. Colonial history of the United States - Wikipedia

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    Every student shared the same curriculum, which focused on Latin and Greek, mathematics, and history, philosophy, logic, ethics, rhetoric, oratory, and a little basic science. There were no separate seminaries, law schools, or divinity schools. The first medical schools were founded late in the colonial era in Philadelphia and New York. [160]

  3. History of the United States - Wikipedia

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    Colonial Era: 1607–1765: 1776–1789 ... in March 1638. The settlers founded Fort Christina at the site of modern-day Wilmington, Delaware, ...

  4. Timeline of Colonial America - Wikipedia

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    1 Pre-Columbian era, to 1500. ... where plans of colonial union are unveiled. Columbia University founded as King's College by George II Royal Charter.

  5. History of colonialism - Wikipedia

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    The third era, 1850 to 1860, was a brief interlude jumping to the East Coast, annexing the region from the Amur River to Manchuria. The fourth era, 1865 to 1885 incorporated Turkestan, and the northern approaches to India, sparking British fears of a threat to India in the Great Game. [31]

  6. British colonization of the Americas - Wikipedia

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    The stripping of birth rights from at least some of the colonial CUKCs in 1968 and 1971, and the change of their citizenships in 1983, actually violated the rights granted them by royal charters at the founding of the colonies.

  7. Thirteen Colonies - Wikipedia

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    Pennsylvania was founded in 1681 as a proprietary colony of Quaker William Penn. ... Nine institutions of higher education were chartered during the colonial era.

  8. Colonial empire - Wikipedia

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    From 1580 to 1640 the Portuguese Empire and the Spanish Empire were conjoined in a personal union of its Habsburg monarchs during the period of the Iberian Union, but beneath the highest level of government, their separate administrations were maintained. Subsequent colonial empires included the French, English, Dutch and Japanese empires.

  9. History of the Americas - Wikipedia

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    The colonial period lasted approximately three centuries, from the early 16th to the early 19th centuries, when Brazil and the larger Hispanic American nations declared independence. The United States obtained independence from Great Britain much earlier, in 1776, while Canada formed a federal dominion in 1867 and received legal independence in ...