Even as they clash, they ignite an era of colonial expansion ... and powers controlled it. The maps in modern textbooks that paint much of early North America with neat, color- coded blocks ...

From 1619 on, not long after the first settlement, the need for colonial labor was ... of the slaves coming to North America arrive in Charleston. Many stay in South Carolina to work on rice ...

slavery factored heavily in the economy of all the British North American colonies, and not just in the plantation economy of the South. While many southerners found slavery morally repugnant ...

Meandering through its colourful, colonial-era streets is the best way to get a taste of the city’s long and chequered history. Staring at a map of North and South America, from the frozen ...

The Jamestown settlement in Virginia, which officially was started on May 14, 1607, was one of the first European colonies to last in North America ... is now Georgia or South Carolina was ...

The “Visscher Map of the New World” including North and South America ... to frame it as involving a series of key periods: Colonial America, the American Revolution, the Age of Expansion ...

Money, or the lack thereof, was a persistent problem in colonial America. The colonists ... colonists further south in Virginia and North Carolina employed tobacco leaves as commodity money.

During this time, European countries such as Britain, Spain, France, and Portugal colonized lands across North and South America. The motivations for the first wave of colonial expansion can be ...