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The 27 pages that link to Thirteen Colonies, each with the reason it gives.

• Treaty of Paris (1763)Related: The treaty’s costs and territorial changes helped shape British policies that fueled colonial resistance.

• United StatesBroader topic: Their political communities became the first states.

• American frontierBroader topic: Their inland edges formed early settlement frontiers before independence.

• New FranceCompared with: Their denser settlement and different political institutions contrasted with New France’s river-based empire.

• British colonization of the AmericasBroader topic: Their political development differed from British Caribbean colonies, despite shared imperial ties.

• Southern United StatesNarrower topic: Several Southern states began as colonies within this founding group.

• Westward expansionNarrower topic: The original republic began on the eastern seaboard before extending its borders westward.

• American EnglishRelated: Their settlement created the earliest enduring English-speaking communities in the United States.

• DelawareNarrower topic: Delaware’s colonial institutions developed within this group of British colonies.

• Flag of the United StatesRelated: The flag’s thirteen stripes recall these colonies.

• Ohio CountryNarrower topic: Their coastal settlement zone contrasted with the contested interior west of the Appalachians.

• Spanish FloridaCompared with: Their expansion and conflicts with Spain shaped Florida’s borders and population movements.

• PennsylvaniaNarrower topic: Pennsylvania developed as one of the colonies that formed the United States.

• Eastern United StatesBroader topic: They occupied the region’s coast and became the first states.

• History of the United StatesBroader topic: These colonies supplied the initial territory and institutions of the republic.

• English colonization of North AmericaBroader topic: These colonies became the central political legacy of English settlement.

• VirginiaNarrower topic: Virginia developed as one member of this colonial group.

• Anglo-AmericaBroader topic: Their political separation from Britain created the largest country in Anglo-America.

• English overseas possessionsBroader topic: Their separation ended English-derived imperial rule over a major part of North America.

• John Graves SimcoeRelated: The revolution in these colonies shaped Simcoe’s views on loyalty and colonial government.

• U.S. stateBroader topic: They formed the original state membership of the United States.

• Colonial history of the United StatesBroader topic: Their varied societies became the principal setting for the colonial crisis with Britain.

• Georgia (U.S. state)Narrower topic: Georgia began as the southernmost of Britain’s mainland North American colonies.

• King George's WarRelated: Their governments and militias supplied much of Britain’s colonial war effort.

• Charles McLean AndrewsRelated: Their institutions and development formed the central subject of Andrews’s colonial histories.

• Delaware ColonyNarrower topic: Delaware’s colonial experience was one strand in the shared path to independence.

• United States of AmericaBroader topic: Their political union became the starting point of the country.