Why Paine claimed that “Europe and not England” is the parent country of America?

Paine said this because multiple European countries colonized places that are now the United States of America, like Spain, France, and Russia in Alaska. Not only England was ruling here in the US.

monopolies  came to the united states with the colonial administration. the large-scale public works needed to make the new world hospitable to old world immigrants required large companies to carry them out. these companies were granted exclusive contracts for these works by the colonial administrators. even after the american revolution, many of these colonial holdovers still functioned due to the contracts and land

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