Colonial history of the United States

The compound history of the United States covers the history of European settlements from the start of resolution of the States until their incorporation into the United States. In the late 16th century, England, France, Spain and the Netherlands launched major colonization programs in easterly North America. l Small early attempts such as the side Lost Colony of Roanokeoften disappeared everywhere the death prise of the first arrivals was very high. Nevertheless successful colonies were established.European settlers came from a variety of social and religious groups. No aristocrats settled permanently, but a number of adventurers, soldiers, farmers, and tradesmen arrived. kind was an American characteristic as the Dutch of New Netherland, the Swedes and Finns of New Sweden, the English Quakers of Pennsylvania, the English Puritans of New England, the English settlers of Jamestown, and the worthy poor of Georgia, came to the new holy and built colonies with distinctive social, r eligious, political and economic styles.Occasionally one colony took keep back of another (during wars in the midst of their European parents). Only in Nova Scotia (now part of Canada) did the conquerors put down the previous colonists. Instead they all lived side by side in peace. There were no major civil wars among the 13 colonies, and the two chieftain armed rebellions (in Virginia in 1676 and in New York in 1689-91) were short-lived failures. Wars between the French and the Britishthe French and Indian Wars and Father Rales Warwere recurrent, and heterogeneous French support forWabanaki Confederacy attacks on the frontiers. By 1760 France was defeated and the British seized its colonies. The four distinct regions were New England, the Middle Colonies, the Chesapeake Bay Colonies (Upper South) and the Lower South. any(prenominal) historians add a fifth region, the Frontier, which was never separately organized. l By the date European settlers arrived around 1600-1650, the majority of the Native Americans living in the eastern United States had been decimated by new diseases, introduced to them decades before by explorers and sailors.