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The northern-most of America's 13 colonies (New York, Vermont, New Hampshire, and Massachusetts) formed her northern border with Canada. Note that Maine was a part of Massachusetts at that time.
The Federalists were strongest in the Northeast. John Adams, from Massachusetts and Alexander Hamilton from NY were two of their leaders. Their main opposition was Thomas Jefferson and his supporters from the South and the West.
basically a country can control another country by spreading their culture in the foreign country. If country A has a large of effect by the culture and ideas of country B, then we can say that country B controls country A socially.
Citizens of the United States that are in the United States are entitled to a trial before they are put into a prison. They have certain rights because of this. Speedy trial and the right to face their accuser are two of them. When traveling outside the United States these may not be valid. We have always given these same rights to visitors to our country also.
The conflict that started the Revolutionary War was, in economic terms, the repressive taxation of the colonies by the English home-country, along with other perceived injustices. The conflict that served as the military spark of the War occurred in April of 1775 at Lexington, then at Concord, in Massachusetts, where colonial militia squared off with menacing British troops.