the Thirteen Colonies

the Thirteen Colonies term used for the colonies of British North America that joined together in the American Revolution against the mother country, adopted the Declaration of Independence in 1776, and became the United States. They were New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia. They are also called the Thirteen Original States.

Thirteen Colonies English colonies in North America that jointly declared independence from Britain (1776) and became the USA. They were: Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, and Virginia.See also American Revolution

Thirteen Colonies The British colonies in North America that ratified the DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE (1776) and thereby became founding states of the USA. They were, with dates of foundation or English colonial status: Virginia (1607), Massachusetts (1629), Maryland (1632), Connecticut (1635), Rhode Island (1636), North Carolina (1663), South Carolina (1663), New York (1664), New Jersey (1664), Delaware (1664), New Hampshire (1679), Pennsylvania (1681), and Georgia (1732). By 1776 all were ruled by royal governors except Maryland, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Connecticut, and Rhode Island, and all had representative assemblies. Though there were major differences over such issues as slavery or religion and often quarrels between neighbouring colonies, they managed to sustain a fragile unity between 1776 and 1783. This improbable cohesion could be described as the greatest unsought achievement of GEORGE III and his ministers, who, in FRANKLIN's words, “made thirteen clocks strike as one”.