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  2. Thirteen Colonies - Wikipedia

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    The Thirteen Colonies refers to the ... all colonies were governed through a state ... Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia were crown colonies ...

  3. Colonial government in the Thirteen Colonies - Wikipedia

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    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 .

  4. Province of Carolina - Wikipedia

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    In 1712, the two provinces became separate colonies, the colony of North Carolina (formerly Albemarle province) and the colony of South Carolina (formerly Clarendon province). [19] Carolina was the first of three colonies in North America settled by the English to have a comprehensive plan.

  5. Province of North Carolina - Wikipedia

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    The Province of North Carolina, originally known as Albemarle Province, was a proprietary colony and later royal colony of Great Britain that existed in North America from 1712 to 1776. [2] (p. 80) It was one of the five Southern colonies and one of the thirteen American colonies.

  6. Colonial period of South Carolina - Wikipedia

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    During the 18th century, South Carolina's capital city of Charleston became a major port in the triangular trade, and local colonists developed indigo, rice and Sea Island cotton using slave labor as export goods, transforming the colony into one of the most prosperous of the Thirteen Colonies.

  7. Province of South Carolina - Wikipedia

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    The Province of South Carolina, originally known as Clarendon Province, was a province of the Kingdom of Great Britain that existed in North America from 1712 to 1776. It was one of the five Southern colonies and one of the thirteen American colonies of the British Empire.

  8. Slave states and free states - Wikipedia

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    By the 18th century, slavery was legal throughout the Thirteen Colonies, ... (1792), and Tennessee was created as a slave state from North Carolina (1796). By 1804 ...

  9. 1776 in the Thirteen Colonies - Wikipedia

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    [13] Fort Salonga is built in Fort Salonga, New York. Peter Van Brugh Livingston is appointed by the New York Provincial Congress as the first New York State Treasurer. [14] Brunswick Town, North Carolina is attacked by British soldiers of the Royal Navy ship Cruizer and burns most of the town including St. Philip's Church. [15] [16]