Thirteen Original Colonies
Every person born and raised in America, within the past half century, has at one time or another heard the song "Fifty Nifty United States"; the song which pounds the memorization of the fifty American states into one's head. If you were to ask any person from the age of ten to thirty, they would most likely be able to recite every single state, alphabetically. Towards the beginning of the brilliant masterpiece, there is a line which exclaims, "Fifty nifty United States/ From thirteen original colonies..." The line, having horrible melodic doggerel, is right about these colonies. Thirteen colonies established by the British were satellites used in a system of mercantilism; they provided the natural resources while England would manufacture the goods to sell back to them. Unlike many other attempts at establishing previous settlements, these particular colonies, over a period of time, began to take their own form and question the mother country. The colonies developed their own ideas and beliefs and eventually broke away from England to for the United States of America. Among the so-called Thirteen
Original Colonies, which included those of New England, the Middle Colonies, and the Southern Colonies, were certain common institutions and philosophies. The three separate regions in colonial America, the New England colonies, the Middle colonies and the Southern colonies, were similar in many ways concerning institutions and philosophies. Every person who traveled to America and had planned to stay there had the same visions and ideas about why they wanted to leave their own country. For many, it was religious persecution. For others, they were thrown out of their country. But whoever had lived in colonial America at this certain time period would agree that all three regions shared common institutions and philosophies; everyone was there for the same reason. They all wanted some sort of democratic rule and an acceptance of religion. It is ironic how, today, people come to America for the same reasons. Even in present day America, the institutions and philosophies are similar in every region. The institutions and philosophies of the three regions in colonial America were mainly similar. Th
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