Thirteen Colonies

plural noun

1. the thirteen British colonies in North America that joined together and became the United States of America after adopting the Declaration of Independence in 1776: New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia.

thirteen colonies

1. The colonies that composed the original United States in 1776: Connecticut , Delaware , Georgia , Maryland , Massachusetts , New Hampshire , New Jersey , New York , North Carolina , Pennsylvania , Rhode Island , South Carolina , and Virginia .

Example Sentences

By 1776, when Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence, there were 500,000 African Americans enslaved among the 2.5 million people in the thirteen colonies.

From Literature

This meeting had been called to discuss united action by the thirteen colonies against the king and Parliament.

From Literature

"Thus the thirteen colonies, at the outset of their struggle for independence, saw themselves surrounded north, south, and west, by lands where the rulers and the ruled were of different races, but where rulers and ruled alike were hostile to the new people that was destined in the end to master them all," Roosevelt wrote in his historical monograph, "The Winning of the West: From the Alleghenies to the Mississippi."

From Salon

"Thus the thirteen colonies... saw themselves surrounded north, south, and west, by lands where the rulers and the ruled were of different races, but where rulers and ruled alike were hostile to the new people that was destined in the end to master them all," Roosevelt wrote.

From Salon

When the thirteen colonies rebelled against Britain, no one raised this question.”

From Literature