The colonies that became the original united states were part of which european nation's land claims?

The colonies that became the original United States were, in general, part of of the British, Spanish, and Dutch land claims. Although it should be noted that many of the people escaping persecution were from England. 

Remember soh-cah-toasoh: cah: toa: now, looking at the picture we can see that we have an angle, the hypotenuse and want to find the value of the adjacent side to the angle. so we use cah to find the adjacent angle. plug in what we have: we need to solve for x now so we get it by itself on one side: plug this into your calculator and you'll find that: