Which States were apart of the Northern colonies and which were apart of the Southern Colonies?
There were no such thing as the “Northern Colonies” or “Southern Colonies” in British North America, at least in the terms of the times. For the British, prior to the American Revolution, there were twenty colonies which were owned by Britain: New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia (these thirteen becoming the United States), Newfoundland, Rupert’s Land, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, Québec (a new acquisition from France), East Florida, and West Florida (newly acquired from Spain). These last seven colonies remained loyal to the British during the American Revolution (though Florida was again ceded to Spain in the Treaty of Paris in 1783). You might be able to split it down the middle somewhere around Pennsylvania. Then again, you may be thinking of the colonies that later took their respective sides during the American Civil war. In that case, the colonies o
