from New Hampshire in the north to Georgia in the south. But how did these British colonies evolve into the United States of America? Let’s take a journey through history and explore what made ...

By the 1860s, Britain was growing tired of maintaining its colonies. The costs, especially of defending British North America, were burdens that a growing number of British politicians could do ...

The man with a taste for alcohol and a brilliant political mind would help shape the British colonies of North America into one nation.

During the early years of the British Empire, 13 colonies in North America were established by the British. These colonies went to war against Britain in 1775 to achieve their freedom, declaring ...

English colonialists liked to say “The sun never sets on the British Empire.” This was literally true by the early 20th ...

Around 1750, the British mainland American ... a massive flight of Scots-Irish to the colonies. The majority of white colonists resided in the North, but the majority of black people lived in ...

Two ex-British colonies ditched the Pound Sterling as their ... relations with the major economy at its southern border: America. As trade increased with America, the idea of neighbours having ...