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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 ...
Date Event Change Map July 4, 1776 Thirteen colonies of the Kingdom of Great Britain in North America collectively declared their independence as the United States of America, [a] though several colonies had already individually declared independence: [8] The Colony of Connecticut, becoming the State of Connecticut [9]
Map of the nine colonial colleges. The colonial colleges are nine institutions of higher education chartered in the Thirteen Colonies before the founding of the United States. [1] These nine have long been considered together, notably since the survey of their origins in the 1907 The Cambridge History of English and American Literature.
Date: 9 October 2008: Source: travail personnel (own work). Source : Image:Map Thirteen Colonies 1775-fr.svg by Urban under licence Public Domain, itself from Image:Map of territorial growth 1775.jpg by National Atlas of the United States under licence Public Domain.
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