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koko
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koko asked in Arts & HumanitiesHistory · 1 decade ago

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Out of the 13 colonies in the U.S, which of the thirteen were northeren colonies?

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  • 1 decade ago
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    The position of the former thirteen Colonies in the civil/ Secession War:

    New England (or Northern) Colonies:

    - Province of New Hampshire (later new Hampshire) : Union

    - Province of Massachussets Bay (Later Massachussets and Maine) : Union

    - Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations (Later Rhode Island) : Union

    - Connecticut Colony (Later connecticut) : Union

    Middle Colonies:

    - Province of New York (Later New York and Vermont): Union

    - Province of New Jersey (New Jersey) : Union

    - Province of Pennsyllvania (Later Pennsylvania): Union

    - Delaware Colony (Delaware) : Union (but a border state)

    Southern Colonies (depending on the period Virgina and Maryland could be defined Chesapeake colonies)

    - Provnce of Maryland (Later Maryland) : Union (but was a border state)

    - Colony and Dominion of Virginia (Later Virginia, Kentucky and West Virginia): Mixed: Virginia was secessionist/ Confederate; Kentucky was Unionist but a boorder state and a strong Confederate/Secessionist faction declared secession; West Virginia Unionist, after separated from Virginia

    - Province of North Carolina (Later North Carolina and Tennessee) Both confederates, secession only after May 1861)

    - Province of South Carolina (Later South Carolina) Confederate and first secessionist state

    - Province of Georgia (Later Georgia) Confederate and one of the first group of secessionist state

  • Rob
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    1 decade ago

    Vermont and New Hampshire were the Northern most. Maine was part of Mass.

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