British America

British America and the British West Indies
Colonies of England (1607–1707) Colonies of Great Britain (1707–1783)
1607–1783
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British colonies in North America which were part of British America (red) at its peak, and other dependencies held by the British Crown at the time (pink)
Capital		Administered from London, England
Languages		English, French, Spanish, Dutch and many indigenous languages
Religion		Anglicanism, Protestantism, Judaism, Roman Catholicism, Native American religion
Government		Constitutional monarchy
Monarch
•	1607–1625	James I & VI (first)
•	1760–1783	George III (last)
History
•	Roanoke Colony	1585
•	Virginia Colony	1607
•	New England	1620
•	King Charles II charter for Rhode Island and Providence Plantations	1663
•	Rupert's Land	1670
•	Treaty of Utrecht	1713
•	Treaty of Paris	1783
Currency		Pound sterling, Spanish dollar, colonial money, bills of credit, commodity money and many local currencies
Preceded by Succeeded by New Netherland New France Spanish Florida New Sweden British North America British West Indies United States Spanish Florida
Today part of		Anguilla  Antigua and Barbuda  Bahamas  Barbados  Belize  Bermuda  British Virgin Islands  Canada  Cayman Islands  Dominica  Grenada  Guyana  Honduras  Jamaica  Mexico  Montserrat  Nicaragua  Saint Kitts and Nevis  Saint Vincent and the Grenadines  Trinidad and Tobago  Turks and Caicos  United States

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English America, and later British America, were the English, and later British, territories in North America (including Bermuda), Central America, the Caribbean, and Guyana from 1607 to 1783. Formally, the British colonies in North America were known as British America and the British West Indies until 1776, when the Thirteen British Colonies located along the Atlantic seaboard declared their independence and formed the United States of America. After that, British North America (or, simply but not inclusively, Canada) was used to describe the remainder of Britain's continental North American possessions. The term "British North America" was first used informally in 1783, but it was uncommon before the Report on the Affairs of British North America (1839), called the Durham Report.

British America gained large amounts of new territory following the Treaty of Paris (1763) which ended Britain's involvement in the Seven Years' War. At the start of the American War of Independence in 1775, the British Empire included 20 colonies north and east of New Spain (present-day areas of Mexico and the Western United States). East and West Florida were ceded to Spain in the Treaty of Paris (1783) which ended the American Revolution, and then ceded by Spain to the United States in 1819. All but one of the remaining colonies of British North America apart from the British West Indies united together from 1867 to 1873 forming the Dominion of Canada. Newfoundland joined Canada in 1949.