"colony" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The majority of Loyalists fought in the southern and middle colonies and few were from the north.
- New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Delaware formed the middle colonies.
- Starting in about 1680, when Pennsylvania was founded, many more settlers arrived in the middle colonies.
- Thus, by mid-century, most colonial farming was a commercial venture, although subsistence agriculture continued to exist in New England and the middle colonies.
- Like the other middle colonies, the Lower Counties on the Delaware initially showed little enthusiasm for a break with Britain.
- Tory resistance was intensified in the middle colonies and New England, even as the chances of British victory ebbed away.
- This happened especially in New England and the southern colonies, which unlike the middle colonies, were frequently at war.
- In colonial times its culture became concentrated in the middle colonies, which became known as the "bread colonies."
- Those who have wanted to defend the use of bills of credit in the colonies have focused on the middle colonies, where inflation was practically nonexistent.
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