Delaware: Originally part of New Sweden before ... Georgia: The last of the 13 colonies, Georgia was established by James Oglethorpe as a buffer zone between British territory and Spanish ...

Lord de la Warr. And, a bonus: Vermont, which was not one of the 13 colonies, is named because, after seeing the Green Mountains, Samuel de Champlain referred to it as "Verd Mont" (green mountains ...

Of the 13 colonies, nine voted in favor of the Declaration, two -- Pennsylvania and South Carolina -- voted No, Delaware was undecided and New York abstained. John Hancock, President of the ...

The original 13 colonies entered the Union from 1787 to 1790, and the remaining 37 were continuously admitted as late as 1959. States are accepted into the U.S. based on Article IV, Section 3 ...

Can you name them all? Give it a try and then scroll down... The 13 original colonies are: Connecticut, Delaware, New Jersey, New York, New Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay, Rhode Island, Pennsylvania ...

So we pause here for a bit of history, with the 13 original colonies in mind (in the order ... Founded by Peter Minuit and the New Sweden Co., Delaware saw the first permanent European settlement ...