<Li> Province of Georgia, later Georgia; first settled in about 1670, formal colony in 1732 </Li> <Li> Nova Scotia, site of abortive Scottish colony in 1629; British colony 1713, but this did not permanently include Cape Breton Island until 1758 . </Li> <Li> Province of Quebec, which had been called Canada under French rule . Canada was by far the most settled portion of New France . Britain gained complete control of French Canada in 1759--1761, from the events within the North American theater of the Seven Years' War; France ceded title with the Treaty of Paris in 1763 . Became Canada East in the Province of Canada, which also included Ontario (Upper Canada) as Canada West, from 1841 to 1867 . </Li> <Li> East Florida and West Florida, acquired from Spain in 1763 in exchange for returning Cuba, taken from Spain in 1761; the Floridas were recovered by Spain in 1783 . Backwoods areas almost unaffected by the Stamp Act Crisis of 1765, which unified the thirteen colonies that formed the United States, not much for abstract principles, and grateful to the crown, they declined to send representatives to the Continental Congress or to participate in any way in the independence movement . After the Second Spanish period, they were acquired by the United States in 1821 . </Li>

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