But how did these British colonies evolve into the United States of America? Let’s take a journey through history and explore what made these colonies tick. A New World Beckons Imagine the 1600s ...

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 ...

Around 1750, the British mainland American colonies had a population of approximately ... a steady stream of German immigrants began to arrive in the late 1600s and reached its peak between ...