Colonial America

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historical period region in history

Colonial America refers to the period of European, primarily British, settlement and rule in what is now the United States, characterized by developing colonies, frontier expansion, and evolving political, social, and religious institutions prior to independence.

Aliases (17)

British America ×20
Colonial New England ×5
American colonial period ×4
British colonial period in North America ×4
English colonial America ×3
American colonies ×2
American colonists ×2
Colonial United States ×2
English colonists ×2
English colonization of North America ×2
colonial America ×2
American Colonies ×1
American colonial art ×1
British colonial America ×1
Colonial North America ×1
Colonial period of New England ×1
United States (colonial America) ×1

Statements (89)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	historical period → region in history →
characterizedBy	European settlement → frontier expansion → mercantilist economic policies → plantation agriculture → religious diversity → self-governing colonial assemblies → slavery → transatlantic trade →
demographicFeature	European settlers → enslaved Africans → large Indigenous populations → mixed-race communities →
dominantColonialPower	Kingdom of Great Britain →
dominantLanguage	English →
dominantReligion	Protestantism →
economyBasedOn	agriculture → fishing → fur trade → shipbuilding → small-scale manufacturing →
educationInstitution	College of William & Mary → Harvard College → Yale College →
followedBy	American Revolutionary period → Early United States →
governedBy	colonial assemblies → colonial charters → royal governors →
hasEndTime	1776 → American Revolutionary War era → late 18th century →
hasPart	Massachusetts Bay Colony → Middle Colonies → New England Colonies → New France → New Netherland → New Spain → Plymouth Colony → Province of Carolina → Province of Georgia → Province of Maryland → Province of New York → Province of Pennsylvania → Southern Colonies → Spanish Florida → Thirteen Colonies → Virginia Colony →
hasStartTime	early 17th century →
influenced	American cultural identity → United States Constitution → development of American political institutions →
influencedBy	British constitutional traditions → Enlightenment ideas → Protestant Reformation →
legalSystem	English common law →
linkedBy	Atlantic slave trade → triangular trade →
locatedIn	North America →
majorConflict	Bacon's Rebellion → French and Indian War → King Philip's War → Pequot War → Stono Rebellion → Yamasee War →
notableEvent	First Great Awakening → Mayflower Compact → Salem witch trials → establishment of Jamestown → founding of Plymouth Colony → signing of the Declaration of Independence →
otherColonialPower	Dutch Republic → Kingdom of France → Kingdom of Spain → Kingdom of Sweden →
otherLanguage	Dutch → French → German → Spanish → various Indigenous languages →
otherReligion	Catholicism → Indigenous religions → Judaism →
partOf	history of the United States →
precededBy	Age of Discovery →
predecessor	Indigenous cultures of North America →
socialStructure	hierarchical society → patriarchal family norms →

Referenced by (141)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Braintree, Province of Massachusetts Bay → Charlestown, Massachusetts Bay Colony → Colony of Pennsylvania → Crispus Attucks → East Jersey → Governor’s Council of New York ("British colonial period in North America") → House of Burgesses → John Parker → Livingston family → Massachusetts Bay Company → Monticello → Of Plymouth Plantation → Patrick Carr ("American colonial period") → Paul Dudley → Perth Amboy → Peyton Randolph → Philadelphia Academy → Princeton, New Jersey Colony → Province of New Jersey → Province of North Carolina → West Jersey → William Prescott →	historicalEra
Bridget Bishop → Colonial Assembly of Maryland ("British colonial period in North America") → Court of Oyer and Terminer → Giles Corey → Half-Way Covenant controversy ("Colonial New England") → Hartwell Tavern → John Proctor → John Winthrop → Jonathan Corwin → Mary Easty → Massachusett people ("Colonial New England") → Massachusetts colonial legislature ("British colonial America") → Metacomet ("Colonial New England") → New England Confederation → New York Colonial Assembly ("British colonial period in North America") → Rebecca Nurse → Salem Village → Samuel Mather → Samuel Maverick → Sarah Good → Sarah Wildes →	historicalPeriod
Ann Putnam Jr. → Benjamin Church → Benjamin Church → Crispus Attucks ("British America") → Eleazar Mather → Elizabeth Parris → George Burroughs → Giles Corey → John Sullivan ("American Colonies") → Jonathan Corwin → Jonathan Corwin → Mary Hopkins ("Colonial United States") → Samuel Sewall → Sarah Good → Stephen Hopkins ("Colonial United States") → William Good →	countryOfCitizenship
Battle of Bloody Brook → Edward Bishop → Francis Nurse → Half-Way Covenant controversy → Howe family of Ipswich and Topsfield → Mather family → Miantonomo ("Colonial New England") → Middle Colonies ("British America") → New England Confederation ("English colonial America") → New England clergy → Putnam family faction in Salem Village → Salem Village meetinghouse → Salem witch trials → Tituba → Turner's Falls massacre →	country
A Call from Heaven → A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections → Book I: Antiquities → Cases of Conscience Concerning Evil Spirits → Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God → The Christian Philosopher → The Freedom of the Will → The Nature of True Virtue → Wonders of the Invisible World → Wonders of the Invisible World: Observations as Well Historical as Theological, upon the Nature, the Number, and the Operations of the Devils →	countryOfOrigin
Arthur Middleton → Cambridge Farms → Edward Winslow → Elizabeth Howe → John Carver → John Parke Custis → Joseph Dudley → Thomas Hooker → William Phips → William Stoughton →	era
American South (colonial and early national periods) ("British America") → Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations ("British America") → Great Migration of Puritans ("English colonization of North America") → New Haven Colony ("English colonial America") → Province of New Hampshire ("British America") →	partOf
Province of New Jersey ("British America") → Province of North Carolina ("British America") → Province of Quebec ("British America") → Province of South Carolina ("British America") →	locatedIn
Benjamin Harris → Robert Smith → William Small ("United States (colonial America)") →	countryOfActivity
Abigail Adams ("British America") → George Washington ("British America") → Thomas Jefferson ("British America") →	placeOfBirth
First Continental Congress ("British America") → Tea Act ("British America") →	appliesToJurisdiction
Jonathan Edwards ("British America") → Paul Revere ("British America") →	countryOfBirth
King George's War ("Colonial North America") → Patriot (American Revolution) ("British America") →	historicalRegion
Jonathan Corwin ("Colonial period of New England") → Samuel Gray ("American colonial period") →	locatedInTime
College of New Jersey → Samuel Parris ("Colonial New England") →	region
Colonel John Quincy ("colonial America") → Frances Jones Dandridge →	timePeriod
Townshend Acts (tea tax component) ("British America") →	appliedTo
Massachusett people ("English colonists") →	colonialEncounterWith
John Berkeley, 1st Baron Berkeley of Stratton ("American colonies") →	colonialRegion
English Army ("English colonization of North America") →	conflict
Roger Williams ("English colonial America") →	countryOfDeath
James Howe Jr. →	countryOfResidence
William Dawes ("American colonial period") →	culturalContext
Peggy Shippen ("American colonists") →	ethnicGroup
American Revolutionary era →	follows
Jamestown ("English colonists") →	hasEthnicGroupInHistory
Todd House →	hasHistoricalPeriod
Boston Massacre ("British America") →	hasLocation
Virginia pound ("British colonial period in North America") →	historicalUse
Yankee Doodle (song) ("American colonists") →	laterAdoptedBy
Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson →	livedDuring
Charleston Tea Party ("American colonial period") →	locatedInTimePeriod
Sons of Liberty ("British America") →	location
John Singleton Copley ("American colonial art") →	movement
Elizabeth Montgomery Witherspoon ("American colonies") →	placeOfActivity
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin ("colonial America") →	timePeriodCovered