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North America
show how a place has
changed over tirne" You can use these
rnaps to compare the way a place is now
wittrr the way it was years a$o. The maps
on this page show that the countries
that controiled North,A,e-nerica changed
frorn l-7tr 3 to 1783. That was a long
time ago, but ttrese events still affect
North Arnerica today. For examptre,
people in Vlexico speak Spanish, people
in the United States speak Engtrish, and
naan), people in Canada speak French.
These languages carne from thre
European settlers who claen'led the land
rulore tFran 300 years ago.
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3 In 1763 the British
owned
land mostly in the
north and
Between 1713
and 1763 which
country lost
most of its land?
The war that made
an independent
country in North
America after
1783 was the
American
In 1783 did
Spain control
more or less of
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North America
than in I7I3?
Between 1763
and 1783
lost much of its
land in the east.
After 1783, Great Britain still controlled land
in the
In 1713 France owned most of the
part of North America.
These maps show the countries that controlled
land in North
These maps show changes of land ownership
None of these countries claimed land in the far
part of the continent.
In 1783 Spain owned what is now the state of
10 This country controlled the southern and
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over
trn 1713 France owned land around the
Lakes.
In 1783 Spain controlled the land along the
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Pacific that is now the state of
In 1783 the eastern part of North America
became
In 1713 how much of North America was an
independent country?
These countries that controlled land are on
which continent?
Did France own more land in the first or last
map?
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in mainland North America?
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western parts of North America in 1783.
In 1763 the border beh,veen Spanish and
River.
British land was the
The British took land first along the coast of
ocean.
the
After 1763 how :nuch land did France control
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Land along the
after that along
the Atlantic.
18 In
1763 Spain
Ocean was claimed
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owned land
of the
Mississippi River.
22 Spain controlled
the land of
Mexico in
The country listed as "independent" on the
1783 map is what country?
these maps.
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0ther countries
also
clarmed fand
in North
America, incfudinq
the Nerhlrfands,
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and
Russia.