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What of the original thirteen colonies was the first to be discovered?
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It is hard to say which colony was the first to be discovered because there are records of Europeans (namely the Vikings) who reached the New World hundreds of years before major powers (i.e England, France, or Spain) ever did. However, Roanoke Colony, the first settlement to have started in present day Virginia. Jamestown was the first successful English colony. The Spaniards beat the English with their settlement at St. Augustine in Florida, which was not one of the original thirteen colonies.
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What were the colonies that took over the 13 original colonies?
The thirteen original colonies became the first thirteen states in The United States of America.
What was the name of the first of the original thirteen colonies?
Jamestown
Which country found the first of the original thirteen colonies?
England
How was the first child born in the thirteen original colonies?
the normal way
How many states when country began?
When the U.S. was first formed, the thirteen colonies became the thirteen original states.
How did the original thirteen colonies get added to the Union?
They where the the union, they where the first US citizens after the revolution.
Which came first the revolutionary war or the thirteen colonies?
The thirteen colonies. When we won the war, the colonies became the first thirteen states.
When America was made how many states did it have?
The original thirteen colonies became the first (thirteen) states. Check out the related link listed below to see the original Betsy Ross flag featuring thirteen stars!
What does 13 stars on a flag mean?
They represented the original thirteen colonies which first became the United States of America.
Was Texas one of the original colonies?
No. The thirteen colonies were on the east coast. The west had not even been explored by the British settlers-although the Spanish had been there for a century. The Battle of the Alamo took place in 1836 and Texas became a state in 1845.
What state was not one the original-thirteen colonies Delaware noth Carolina Kentucky Virginia?
Kentucky was not one of the original thirteen colonies that became states. The thirteen colonies were (from north to south) New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia. If you look at a map, you can see that every one of the original thirteen states bordered on the Atlantic Ocean, which made them among the first areas to be settled Kentucky is west of the original colonies, not on the ocean, and was settled later.
What do the 13 red and white alternating stripes represent on the flag?
The thirteen stripes represent the first thirteen states when America was made.
