It acquired its colonies through a mixture of military conquest ... It developed into an economic powerhouse with an economy ...

The shift from indentured servitude to racial slavery in the British colonies is evident in the development of the colonies' laws. • Virginia, 1639: The first law to exclude "Negroes" from ...

The keepers of statistics in the colonies were not much interested in the native population but they kept careful notes about the lives of white colonists. About half were Catholic and half ...

Around 1750, the British mainland American colonies had a population of approximately 1.5 million. In addition to settlers from Great Britain, a steady stream of German immigrants began to arrive ...

In the east, Newfoundland sat in isolation, and the separate colonies of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island had little to do with one another. In the centre, was the large ...