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1 day ago · By 1750, about 60,000 Irish and 50,000 Germans came to live in British North America, many of them settling in the Mid-Atlantic region. William Penn founded the colony of Pennsylvania in 1682, and attracted an influx of British Quakers with his policies of religious liberty and freehold ownership.
- Timeline of Colonial America
1711 – The British fail to take Quebec City. 1711–12 – North...
- Bacon's Rebellion
Bacon's Rebellion was an armed rebellion held by Virginia...
- Thirteen Colonies
The Thirteen Colonies were a group of British colonies on...
- North America
North America is a continent [b] in the Northern and Western...
- Timeline of Colonial America
2 days ago · In 1867 the British North America Act created a confederation from three colonies (Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Canada) called the Dominion of Canada. The act also divided the old colony of Canada into the separate provinces of Ontario and Quebec.
12 hours ago · North America’s only land connection is to South America at the narrow Isthmus of Panama. Denali (Mount McKinley) in Alaska, rising 20,310 feet (6,190 metres) above sea level, is the continent’s highest point, and Death Valley in California, at 282 feet (86 metres) below sea level, is its lowest. North America’s coastline of some 37,000 ...
3 days ago · The Rockies are bordered on the east by the Great Plains and on the west by the Interior Plateau and Coast Mountains of Canada and the Columbia Plateau and Basin and Range Province of the United States.
Apr 30, 2024 · North America is a continent entirely within the Northern Hemisphere and almost all within the Western Hemisphere. It can also be described as a northern subcontinent of the Americas.
