ABSTRACT
The English colonies in America began to show signs of maturity roughly during the last quarter of the seventeenth century. This process was accompanied by a series of revolts, most of which were precipitated by the Glorious Revolution in England in 1688. During the following half century, the colonies enjoyed relative political stability, which encouraged the development of a common "American" culture. Great changes in American life took place during the eighteenth century. A thin line of settlements grew into a solid group of colonies. Communication and transportation improved with Great Britain and also among the colonies themselves. Maryland was the third colony to experience a revolution in 1689. Lord Baltimore had done little to mitigate the political or economic grievances of the Maryland colonists. During the eighteenth century a rapidly swelling colonial population participated in and was affected by, the series of wars between Great Britain and France. All these trends resulted in homogenization an Anglicization of American life.
