The United States, 1763-2000 (Spotlight History)
Publisher: Routledge
Published: January 7, 2005
Language: eng
Number of pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9780415290296
First sentence: In the mid-eighteenth century the inhabitants of the thirteen colonies along the Atlantic seaboard of America still regarded themselves as British, but the society in which they lived was far from similar to that in Britain, and in fact major differences had emerged between northern and southern colonies, with such issues as slavery having a profound effect upon the diversity of life in the Americas.