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Overland travel was difficult in the early colonies. For a long time, water transportation was the colonists' main link to the outside world. In fact, nearly all the early colonial settlements were port located on natural harbors or navigable rivers. New settlers migrated by sea to the growing coastal towns and inland trading posts on rivers.
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Where did most early settlements have to be located near?
#1. Water. #2. Food. #3. raw materials in order to build the settlements (i.e. wood, stone, mud, metal ore, etc.)
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They had beds just like we do.
Which group had become the most advanced of the indigenous peoples by the early colonial period?
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In Colonial America the spread of what industry is most often associated with the early development of slavery?
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Early colonial population statistics for Virginia and Maryland revealed what?
Most men and women only lived until their early to mid 40s.
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