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Some of the colonies were royal colonies from the start, others had begun as proprietary colonies, such as Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Carolina (later divided into North and South). A proprietary cololy was a massive grant of land to one person, or a small group of people, who were then obligated to try to govern this new property and to try to make it pay, somehow. William Penn was given Pennsylvania in payment for money his father was owed by the crown, and his sons continued to try to make money from it after he was dead. Maryland was given to Lord Calvert in payment for services, for use as a haven for English Catholics, so long as those of other faiths living there were not discriminated against. There were eight Lords Proprietors who were given Carolina by Charles II, in return for their help in the Restoration. The Restoration was the return of the King to the throne of England, in the person of Charles II, after the English Civil War, when Cromwell had beheaded Charles I, father of Charles II, and then ruled England as the "Lord Protector" for a dozen years. The Lords Proprietors has tried to make a paying colony out of Carolina for sixty years, but gave up in the 1720s (all except for one of them) and gave Carolina back to the crown, so it became a royal colony, with the sticky problem of that one Lord Proprietor (Albermarle) who wouldn't give up his title, and so buying land and getting a clear title to it was a headache. But all of the 13 colonies, whether royal or proprietary, were British colonies. Traditionally the governor of each colony was paid by money appropriated by the colonial assembly, which gave the assembly some leverage over the governor. One of the issues leading to the Revolution was that George III tried to change this system of how the governors got paid, which would take away from the colonists much of the ability they had to influence their own governor.
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What did the clashes between colonists and British soldiers at Lexington and Concord prove?
Americans were willing to fight for the right to govern themselves
Have the British ever won a war?
Shortly after the Americans were kicked out of Vietnam, the British won the Falklands War.
Did the Americans ever fight the British in Canada?
Yes they did. this happened in the revolutionary war.
Did more native Americans fight for british or Americans?
they fighted for british
Why did majority of Native Americans choose to side with the British during the Revolutiona ry War?
The British said they would stop colonists from settling in the west
What did the clashes between colonists and British soldiers at Lexington and Concord prove?
Americans were willing to fight for the right to govern themselves
Have the British ever won a war?
Shortly after the Americans were kicked out of Vietnam, the British won the Falklands War.
Did the Americans ever fight the British in Canada?
Yes they did. this happened in the revolutionary war.
Did british govern the 13 colonies?
Yes
Which body located in Jamestown Virginia was the first elected assembly to govern in a British colony?
The House of Burgesses was the first elected assembly to govern in a British colony.
Did jorge Farragut help the americans or the british?
americans
How was the British treating the Americans?
The British were treating the Americans cruelly
Where did the british surrender to the Americans?
the british and the americans stoped fighting cause
Did more native Americans fight for british or Americans?
they fighted for british
Why did majority of Native Americans choose to side with the British during the Revolutiona ry War?
The British said they would stop colonists from settling in the west
Did Benjamin Franklin help the Americans or british?
he helped the Americans
What city did the British take from the Americans?
The British took New York from the Americans.
