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purportedly sewed the first American Flag with 13 stars and 13 stripes representing each of the 13 states.]] The Thirteen Colonies were thirteen British Colonies in North America , separately Charter ed and governed, that rebelled, signed the Declaration Of Independence in 1776 becoming independent sovereign states, thereby establishing the United States Of America . THE THIRTEEN COLONIES Contemporaneous documents almost always listed the colonies in geographical order, roughly from north to south, as follows (the division into three regions is a later construct of historians, though New England was always considered to be a distinct region):
Reference is sometimes seen to the Chesapeake Colonies, these being the Province of Maryland and the Colony and Dominion of Virginia; so called because they border the Chesapeake Bay . PROPRIETARY, ROYAL, AND CHARTER COLONIES The Thirteen Colonies were established by one of three possible means.
BRITISH COLONIES IN MAINLAND NORTH AMERICA THAT DID NOT JOIN THE REBELLION Britain held several other colonies on mainland North America in 1776 which did not join the 13 in their Revolution against the Crown. Future Canadian provinces
ruled the orange west of the Mississippi River . The red area is the area of the 13 colonies after the Proclamation of 1763. (Map produced by U.S. Dept. of Interior.)]] Future American states
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