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 ...

Africans soon are put to work on tobacco plantations. 1663: A Virginia court decides that a child born to a slave mother is also a slave. 1705: The General Assembly declares imported servants who ...

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 ...