Summary Of Colonial America

The 13 colonies is traditionally, when we tell the story of "Colonial America", we are talking about the English colonies along the Eastern seaboard. That story is incomplete. By the time Englishmen had begun to establish colonies in earnest, there were plenty of french, spanish, dutch, and even russian colonial outposts on the american cotinent. But the story of those 12 colonies, it was those colonies that came together to form the United States.
In 1632, the English crown granted about 12 million acres of land at the top of Chesapeake Bay to Cecilius Calvert, the second Lord Baltimore. This colony, named Maryland, after the queen, was similar to Virginia in many ways. Its landowners produced tobacco on large plantations that depended on