After Christopher Columbus sailed across the Atlantic and discovered the New World in 1492, sailors from many European nations set out west on voyages of discovery. Europeans were curious about these new lands, but they were also determined to find...

When the Europeans began their colonization of the North American continent after 1500, one of their goals was to convert the native peoples to Christianity. The Spanish in the Southwest and the French in the North brought Catholic priests and friars...

. The Europeans and Africans who came to the New World brought with them ideas and attitudes about religion, society, gender, race, and power. Europeans self-consciously tried to model their new societies after what they had known before, attempting to...

In 1492 the native population of North America north of the Rio Grande was seven million to ten million. These peoplegrouped themselves into ap-proximately six hundred tribes and spoke diverse dia-lects. European colonists initiallyencountered Native...

Colonial Foundation By the mid-1700s, settlers had established thirteen colonies in America. The colonies, all under British control, were located along the Atlantic shore, extending from present-day Maine in the north to Georgia in the south....

Up until the second half of the seventeenth century, the British government was far too preoccupied with its own problems to closely monitor and regulate colonial policy. So, in virtually every aspect of daily life, from providing their families with...

The Thirteen Colonies were British colonies in North America which rebelled against British rule in 1775. A provisional government was formed which proclaimed their independence on July 4, 1776, and subsequently became the original thirteen United...