A charter colony was Rhode Island, Connecticut, or Massachusetts Bay which was incorporated during the early 1600s; Virginia, at one time, was one as well. Land grants from the Crown established these ...

The shift from indentured servitude to racial slavery in the British colonies is evident in the development of the colonies' laws. • Virginia, 1639: The first law to exclude "Negroes" from ...

and shipped to the colony in the early 1600s. Jamestown, the first permanent English settlement in the Americas, existed from ...

Around 1750, the British mainland American colonies had a population of approximately ... a steady stream of German immigrants began to arrive in the late 1600s and reached its peak between ...