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Frontiers of Empire: Eighteenth-Century...
Chapter Summary
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During the eighteenth century, Britian's thirteen mainland colonies underwent a profound transformation. The population in the colonies grew at unprecedented rates. German and Scotch-Irish immigrants arrived in huge numbers. So too did African slaves. Colonial Americans in the eighteenth century were aware of living on the edge of a great and growing empire. Even as American society became more diverse, England exerted a more dominant political, economic and cultural force. As the colonists became more British, they became American for the first time.
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