Making Connections

  1. How did consumption influence the relationship between the American colonies and Britain in the eighteenth century?

  2. Why did the importance of religion decline throughout the colonies from the seventeenth to the eighteenth century?

  3. How did colonists and Indians manage relationships with each other?

  4. Compare patterns of immigration to the middle and southern colonies. Who came, and how did they get there? How did they shape the economic, cultural, and political character of each colony?