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The Colonialisation of North America (1492-1754)

The colonial history of the <a href="https://history-maps.com/story/History-of-the-United-States" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">United States</a> covers the history of European colonization of North America from the early 17th century until the incorporation of the Thirteen Colonies into the United States after the <a href="https://history-maps.com/story/American-Revolutionary-War" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">American Revolutionary War</a>. In the late 16th century, <a href="https://history-maps.com/story/History-of-England" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">England</a> (British Empire), Kingdom of <a href="https://history-maps.com/story/History-of-France" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">France</a>, <a href="https://history-maps.com/story/History-of-Spain" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Spanish</a> Empire, and the <a href="https://history-maps.com/story/History-of-the-Netherlands" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Dutch Republic</a> launched major colonization programs in North America. The death rate was very high among early immigrants, and some early attempts disappeared altogether, such as the English Lost Colony of Roanoke. Nevertheless, successful colonies were established within several decades. European settlers came from a variety of social and religious groups, including adventurers, farmers, indentured servants, tradesmen, and a very few from the aristocracy. Settlers included the Dutch of New Netherland, the Swedes and Finns of New Sweden, the English Quakers of the Province of Pennsylvania, the English Puritans of New England, the Virginian Cavaliers, the English Catholics and Protestant Nonconformists of the Province of Maryland, the "worthy poor" of the Province of Georgia, the Germans who settled the mid-Atlantic colonies, and the Ulster Scots of the Appalachian Mountains. These groups all became part of the United States when it gained its independence in 1776. <a href="https://history-maps.com/story/History-of-Russia-Russian-Empire" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Russian America</a> and parts of New France and New Spain were also incorporated into the United States at later times. The diverse colonists from these various regions built colonies of distinctive social, religious, political, and economic style. Over time, non-British colonies East of the Mississippi River were taken over and most of the inhabitants were assimilated. In Nova Scotia, however, the British expelled the French Acadians, and many relocated to Louisiana. No civil wars occurred in the Thirteen Colonies. The two chief armed rebellions were short-lived failures in Virginia in 1676 and in New York in 1689–1691. Some of the colonies developed legalized systems of slavery, centered largely around the Atlantic slave trade. Wars were recurrent between the French and the British during the <a href="https://history-maps.com/story/French-and-Indian-War" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">French and Indian Wars</a>. By 1760, France was defeated and its colonies were seized by Britain. On the eastern seaboard, the four distinct English regions were New England, the Middle Colonies, the Chesapeake Bay Colonies (Upper South), and the Southern Colonies (Lower South). Some historians add a fifth region of the "Frontier", which was never separately organized. A significant percentage of the native Americans living in the eastern region had been ravaged by disease before 1620, possibly introduced to them decades before by explorers and sailors (although no conclusive cause has been established).

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Historia colonial de los Estados Unidos Línea de tiempo

Historia colonial de los Estados Unidos Línea de tiempo

Prólogo

Descubrimiento a las Américas

El viaje de John Cabot

Ponce de León Expedition to Florida

Expedición Verrazzano

La exploración de De Soto

Expedición Coronado

California

Primer acuerdo exitoso

Colonia perdida de Roanoke

Puerto Real

Primeros asentamientos y desarrollo colonial

Jamestown fundado

Santa Fe

Casa de los burgueses

Los peregrinos establecen la colonia de Plymouth

Masacre india de 1622

Nueva Holanda

Guerra Pequot

Nueva Suecia

Protesta sonrojada

Carolinas

Leyes contra el mestizaje

La guerra del rey Felipe

La rebelión del tocino

Expansión

Pensilvania fundada

Guerra del rey Guillermo

Ley de tolerancia de 1688

Juicios de brujas de Salem

Códigos de esclavos de Virginia de 1705

Guerra tuscarora

Guerra de yamasee

Nueva Orleans fundada

Primer gran despertar

Colonias rusas

Georgia establecida

Rebelión de piedra

Ley negra de 1740

Guerra del rey Jorge

Guerra franco-india

Revolución Americana

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