Major cities in the English colonies such as New York, Philadelphia,and Baltimore developed first as?

Question

indian villages
seaports and commerical centers
government centers

Answer 1

Seaports & Commercial Centers..


Peace....

Answer 2

Obviously, most were Indian villages first. The indians were here thousands of years before the settlers. The white settlements started out mostly as seaports, growing into commercial centers. Later on, in the 19th century, location of railroads became the dominant factor in where cities grew up. Atlanta, for instance, started out as the place where the first railroad in Georgia stopped. Government centers much less so - government was a pretty small enterprise in the colonial period.

Answer 3

Just a note: New York was not a city in the English colonies. It was a city in the Dutch colonies.

Oh, and they were not Indian villages because the Indians already had their villages so the Europeans had to start their own.

Answer 4

All of the above. TRADE... that was the stimulous and those cities... as well as other cities in the U.S. grew out of the need for TRADE..

Answer 5

small towns and government centers