The 13 colonies can be divided into three distinct ... This region included Virginia, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia. In the American colonies, governing structures varied ...

On July 4, 1776, the 13 colonies claimed their independence from ... State House (later Independence Hall), Richard Henry Lee of Virginia presented a resolution with the famous words: "Resolved ...

With passage to the Colonies expensive for all but the wealthy, the Virginia Company developed the system of indentured servitude to attract workers. Indentured servants became vital to the ...

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 ...