Characterize the population of the various early colonial settlements in North America. What were some of the factors that influenced their respective growths or stagnations? How did these factors influence the introduction of slavery in North America?

Why did the communities in different various colonies develop so differently? What, for example, accounts for the predominance of plantations and rural communities in the South as opposed to the prevalence of towns and cities in the North?

What roles did religion and the Enlightenment, respectively, play in the development of colonial minds?