The Republic of Texas (1836–45) was a unique experiment in creating a multiethnic state in the New World.
Read the full storyThe Roanoke colony, established as a business venture by Sir Walter Raleigh, was the first English settlement in the New World.
Read the full storyThe Red River colony, established by THOMAS DOUGLAS, Lord Selkirk, in 1812, was the first farming settlement in western British North America.
Read the full storyThe Canadian province of Quebec is unique in North America in maintaining a predominantly French heritage, despite being surrounded by English-speaking areas that would eventually become the Canadian provinces of Ontario, New Brunswick, and Newfoundland and the U.S. states of Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, and New York.
Read the full storyIle-St.-Jean (Isle St. John) was claimed for France by SAMUEL DE CHAMPLAIN in 1603.
Read the full storyFrustrated with the proprietary politics in the New Jersey colony, William Penn founded Pennsylvania in 1681.
Read the full storyThe peninsula of Nova Scotia was a continual source of conflict between France and Britain from the establishment of its first settlement by France at Port Royal (1605) until France was driven completely from North America in the Seven Years’ War (1756–1763).
Read the full storyNew Amsterdam, conquered by England in 1664, was the heart of the Dutch commercial empire in North America (New Netherland).
Read the full storyOriginally part of the newly conquered territory of New Netherland, in 1664, New Jersey was granted by James, Duke of York (later James II) as a proprietary colony to John, Lord Berkeley and Sir George Carteret.
Read the full storyAn early area of contention between France and England, the region of modern New Hampshire was gradually settled mainly by English immigrants and became a prime shipbuilding area for the British.
Read the full storyNew France was the name of the French colonial empire in North America.
Read the full storyNewfoundland comprises the island of Newfoundland and the nearby coast of the mainland region of Labrador.
Read the full storyEuropeans first settled the New Brunswick region of Canada in 1604, when Frenchmen SAMUEL DE CHAMPLAIN and Pierre du Gua, sieur de Monts, established a fur-trading settlement on St. Croix Island.
Read the full storyMaryland was the sixth English colony established on the North American mainland (1634).
Read the full storyThe watershed and mouth of the Missouri-Mississippi River system became known as Louisiana and was from the earliest days of discovery considered strategically important by many European nations.
Read the full storyThe Georgia colony was unique among Britain’s American colonies. It was founded in 1732 as a penal colony for the “worthy” poor in the disputed territory between the British Carolina colonies and Spanish Florida.
Read the full storyThe Delaware region was explored by Henry Hudson in 1609 as he searched for a passage to Asia.
Read the full storyThe Carolina colony, later divided, was the gift of Charles II (r. 1660–85) to eight loyal courtiers who had followed him into exile during the English Civil War.
Read the full storyThe Barr colony was the attempt of two Anglican clergymen to establish a British colony in 1903 in remote Saskatchewan, almost 200 miles northwest of Saskatoon.
Read the full storyAcadia is the region of North America bounded by the St. Lawrence Seaway on the north, the Gulf of St. Lawrence on the east, and the Atlantic Ocean on the south.
Read the full storyUlster, situated in the northeastern portion of the island of Ireland, was one of the major Irish kingdoms of the medieval period.
Read the full storyJamestown was the first permanent English settlement in the Western Hemisphere (1607) and the core of what would later become the royal colony of Virginia (1624).
Read the full storyThe Connecticut colony, chartered by Charles II in 1662, was an outgrowth of the great Puritan migration of the 1630s.
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