By the eighteenth century, this city was North America's most important colonial port:

The Glorious Revolution in England had significant implications for the colonies because
England now had a constitutional monarchy.

A critical problem confronting the first settlers of Jamestown was
their refusal to engage in physical labor even if it meant starving.

By the 1650s the New England economy had
diversified into farming, fishing, lumbering, shipbuilding, and other enterprises.

King William's War was primarily between the English and the
French.

In contrast to the Chesapeake, New England communities
were mainly family groups.

The southern part of early Carolina communities had a cultural character that was distinctly
West Indian.

The English settlers in southern New England were mainly interested in
land expansion.

The Anglo-Dutch Wars resulted in
English takeover of New Amsterdam.

The Plymouth colony was
a successful and strong community.

The cultivation of tobacco by the English colonists
created pressure for more expansion into Indian territory.

The primary reason for the establishment of the colony at Plymouth was the settlers' desire to
establish their own church independent of the English Church.

By the eighteenth century, this city was North America's most important colonial port:
Philadelphia

The cultural ideal for Puritan women in the New England community social order was
subordination of women to men.

Penn approved of this former Scandinavian-Dutch community becoming the separate colony of
Delaware.

The most ethnically and religiously diverse English colony by the late seventeenth century was
New York.

The seventeenth-century Pueblo Indians approached Christianity by
making Christianity one more part of their already complex culture.

Maryland was the only English colony in North America with a substantial minority of
Catholics.

Metacomet, leader of the Wampanoags, led a fierce but futile war against New Englanders known as
King Philip's War.

French interest in the Indians was based primarily on
commercial concerns.

The Puritans were unique among seventeenth century colonies in North America in having
an impressive educational system.