The Northern Colonies: Freedom to Worship (1600-1770)

The United States' boundaries have expanded over the centuries- and at the same time, Americans' ideas about their country have grown as well. The nation the world knows today was shaped by centuries of thinkers and events.

More than three hundred years later, America is very different from the early communities shaped by these first European settlers-and yet these long-ago individuals are part of the story of how America became America.