Review Questions

1. How did the North American colonies achieve the remarkable population growth of the eighteenth century?
2. Why did settlement patterns in New England change from the seventeenth to the eighteenth century?
3. Why did immigrants flood into Pennsylvania during the eighteenth century?
4. How did slavery influence the society and economy of the southern colonies?
5. How did culture, commerce, and consumption shape the collective identity of Britain’s North American colonists in the eighteenth century?