British America

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former colonial entity historical region

British America was the collective term for Britain’s colonies in North America and the Caribbean prior to the independence of the United States and other territories.

Aliases (17)

British North America ×38
British colonial administration in North America ×4
British American colonies ×2
British colonies in North America ×2
British Crown in North America ×1
British Empire in North America ×1
British North America and the British West Indies ×1
British colonial America ×1
British colonial North America ×1
British colonies ×1
British colonies in America ×1
British colonists ×1
English colonial America ×1
English colonial empire ×1
Great Britain (colonial period) ×1
United States (colonial America) ×1
United States (pre-independence colonies) ×1

Statements (81)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	former colonial entity → historical region →
alsoKnownAs	British North America and the British West Indies → British colonies in America →
appliesToJurisdiction	British Empire →
colonialPower	England → Great Britain →
continent	Africa → Antarctica → Asia → Caribbean → Europe → North America → Oceania → South America →
country	Kingdom of England → Kingdom of Great Britain →
currency	Pound sterling →
demographics	European settlers → Indigenous peoples of the Americas → enslaved Africans →
dissolvedInto	British Overseas Territories in the Americas → Dominion of Canada → United States of America → various independent Caribbean states →
economy	Atlantic slave trade → fur trade → plantation agriculture → rum production → sugar production → tobacco cultivation →
endTime	19th century →
governmentType	colonial administration →
hasPart	Bahamas → Barbados NERFINISHED → Bermuda → British Honduras → British West Indies → East Florida → Hudson's Bay Company territories in North America → Jamaica → Leeward Islands → Lower Canada → Newfoundland Colony → Nova Scotia → Prince Edward Island → Province of New Brunswick → Province of Quebec → Rupert's Land → Thirteen Colonies → Upper Canada → West Florida → Windward Islands →
includesTerritoryOf	present-day Antigua and Barbuda → present-day Bahamas → present-day Barbados → present-day Belize → present-day Canada → present-day Dominica → present-day Grenada → present-day Guyana → present-day Jamaica → present-day Saint Kitts and Nevis → present-day Saint Lucia → present-day Saint Vincent and the Grenadines → present-day Trinidad and Tobago → present-day United States →
language	English →
legalSystem	English common law →
partOf	British Empire → British colonial empire →
religion	Anglicanism → Protestantism → Puritanism →
significantEvent	American Revolutionary War → Seven Years' War → Treaty of Paris 1763 → Treaty of Paris 1783 →
startTime	early 17th century →
timePeriod	17th century → 18th century →

Referenced by (169)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Boston Sons of Liberty → Braintree, Province of Massachusetts Bay → Clergy reserves ("British North America") → Colony of Maryland → Colony of Pennsylvania → Committees of Correspondence → Connecticut colonial flag → Dominion of New England → East Windsor, Connecticut Colony → Family Compact ("British North America") → Germantown, Colony of Virginia, British America → Lower Canada ("British North America") → New England Colonies → New Jersey colonial assembly → New York Sons of Liberty → Parliament of Upper Canada ("British North America") → Patriots → Philadelphia Academy → Princeton, New Jersey Colony → Province of Canada ("British North America") → Province of Delaware → Province of Georgia → Province of Massachusetts Bay → Province of New York → Queen Anne's War → Rupert's Land ("British North America") → Southern Colonies → West Jersey → Weymouth, Province of Massachusetts Bay → Windham, Connecticut Colony →	locatedIn
Battle of Valcour Island → Charleston Tea Party → Connecticut Sons of Liberty → Declaration and Resolves of the First Continental Congress → Easttown Township, Province of Pennsylvania → Fairfax Line → Hancock (Cherokee leader) → Liberty Tree → Maryland Sons of Liberty → New England colonial militias → New Jersey pound → Port Conway, Colony of Virginia → Provincial Rangers → Reports of Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Superior Court of Judicature of the Province of Massachusetts Bay ("United States (pre-independence colonies)") → Rhode Island Sons of Liberty → Shadwell, Virginia Colony → South Carolina Sons of Liberty → Stono Rebellion ("British North America") → Virginia Sons of Liberty →	country
British Indian Department ("British colonial administration in North America") → Colony and Dominion of Virginia → Connecticut Colony → Delaware Colony → East Florida → Fort Michilimackinac ("British North America") → Frances Jones Dandridge → Germantown, Colony of Virginia, British America ("British colonial America") → Governor’s Council of New York ("British colonial administration in North America") → Massachusetts Bay Company ("English colonial empire") → New York Colony → Ohio Country ("British colonial North America") → Old Dominion → Province of Carolina → Rupert's Land ("British North America") → West Florida → William Tryon ("British colonial administration in North America") →	partOf
James Caldwell → John Parker → Jonas Clarke → Joseph Warren → Josiah Quincy Jr. → Margaret Mansfield → Mercy Otis Warren → Rachel Walker ("United States (colonial America)") → Sarah Pierpont Edwards → William Prescott →	countryOfCitizenship
Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford → Benjamin West → John Singleton Copley → John Stark → Margaret Kemble Gage → Nathanael Greene → Robert Rogers → William Prescott →	birthPlace
Act of Union 1840 ("British North America") → Annapolis Royal campaigns ("British North America") → British capture of Savannah → Butler’s Rangers ("British North America") → Elizabeth Glover Winthrop → Province of New England → Sir John Johnson ("British North America") → Union Fire Company →	historicalRegion
American colonial assemblies → British North American colonies (except some territories) ("British North America") → Colonial Assembly of Maryland → Colonial Assembly of North Carolina → Commander-in-Chief, North America ("British North America") → Stamp Act 1765 →	appliesToJurisdiction
Dolley Madison → Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton → Gilbert Stuart → Henry Knox → James Otis Jr. → Martha Washington →	countryOfBirth
American Loyalists ("British North America") → American Revolutionary era → British–Native American wars → Liberty Boys → Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada ("British North America") →	location
Black Loyalists ("British North America") → North Carolina pound → Samuel Mather → South Carolina pound → Virginia pound →	region
Legislative Council of Upper Canada ("British North America") → Quartering Act → Royal Proclamation of 1763 ("British North America") → Treaty of Westminster (1674) ("British North America") →	appliesToTerritory
Elbridge Gerry → Eli Whitney → Oliver Ellsworth → Robert Fulton →	placeOfBirth
Battle of Fort Ticonderoga (French and Indian War) → Battle of Plattsburgh ("British North America") → Braddock Expedition →	belligerent
British America ("British colonies in America") → British America ("British North America and the British West Indies") →	alsoKnownAs
Fort Vancouver National Historic Site ("British Empire in North America") → Rogers' Rangers ("British colonial administration in North America") →	associatedWith
John Barry → William Paterson →	immigratedTo
Loyalist provincial corps ("British North America") →	activeIn
Sugar Act 1764 ("British American colonies") →	appliedTo
Richard Coote, 1st Earl of Bellomont ("British North America") →	areaOfActivity
John Carteret, 2nd Earl Granville ("British North America") →	areaOfInfluence
Catawba ("British colonies") →	colonialAlliances
Sauk ("British colonists") →	colonialContactWith
Chestnut Grove plantation, New Kent County, Colony of Virginia →	colonialEra
New France →	colonialRival
Aroostook War ("British North America") →	conflictBetween
Thomas Marshall →	country of citizenship
Definitive Treaty of Peace ("British North America") →	countryAffected
Journals of Major Robert Rogers →	countryOfOrigin
John Butler ("British North America") →	countryOfResidence
class F – Local History of the United States and British, Dutch, French, and Latin America →	coversRegion
Definitive Treaty of Peace ("British North America") →	definedBoundaryBetween
Thomas Paine →	emigratedTo
Liberty Pole ("British North America") →	geographicScope
First Thanksgiving (1621) ("English colonial America") →	hasCountry
Stockbridge Indian mission →	historicalCountry
Lord of Philipsburg Manor ("British North America") →	historicalLocation
Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr →	historicalRegionAssociated
Maritime Canada ("British North America") →	historicalRegionOf
Constitutional Act 1791 ("British North America") →	inForceIn
Frances Jones Dandridge ("British colonies in North America") →	livedIn
Newark ("British North America") →	locatedInCountryAtTheTime
King’s Royal Regiment of New York ("British Crown in North America") →	loyalistUnitOf
Great Awakening ("British American colonies") →	mainRegion
Royal Proclamation of 1763 ("British North America") →	mainSubject
Apollos Rivoire →	migratedTo
Trustees for the Establishment of the Colony of Georgia in America →	operatedInTheTerritory
Raid on Saratoga (1745) →	opposingSide
James Caldwell →	placeOfDeath
John Vassall Jr. →	residence
Sarah Orne ("Great Britain (colonial period)") →	spouseCitizenship
British Canada ("British North America") →	successor
New France ("British North America") →	successorState
Spanish dollar ("British North America") →	usedInRegion
Peter Sargeant ("British colonies in North America") →	workLocation