<u>The thirteen colonies were British settlements on the Atlantic coast of America</u> in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Over time, they lead to the creation of the United States of America and are an important part of the history of the United States.
<u>The 13 colonies were</u> Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, New York, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, and Massachusetts.
<u>The colonies were classified into three groups</u>: <u><em>the colonies of New England </em></u>(Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Connecticut), <u><em>the middle colonies</em></u> (New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware) <u><em>and the southern colonies </em></u>(Maryland, Virginia, Carolina North, South Carolina and Georgia).
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Each of the 13 colonies had its own self-government</u>, but only white men could vote for who they wanted their governor to be.
The French<span> decided to back the U.S. in its military efforts until the U.S. had full independence from Great Britain.</span>
A proposal for unifying colonial government presented at the Albany Congress by Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Hutchinson. the plan called for a limited governmental agency, representing all the colonies, that would coordinate defense and indian affairs. Although the delegates approved the plan, neither the colonial governments nor the British supported the proposal.
The Great Schism was between the Roman Catholic Church and the Greek Orthodox Church.
The Great Schism refers to a conflictive religious event that occurred in 1054. In this conflict there was a mutual rupture and excommunication between the highest hierarch of the Catholic Church in Rome, the Pope or Bishop of Rome (together with the Christianity of Occident), and the ecclesiastical hierarchies of the Orthodox Church (together with the Christianity of the East) especially the principal of them, the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople.
<span>In the feudal system of the Medieval age, a Serf was a person who was bound to the land of his Lord. A Serf was required to service the Lord as requested. Typically, the peasant Serf would perform manual farm labor on the land and then any other duties requested by his Lord, in exchange for using part of the Lord's land to generate their own food.</span>