1.   Both prospered in the colonial period as free ports.

2.   During the colonial period, those powers were possessed exclusively by and were entirely under the control of the Crown.

3.   Education was very limited during the colonial period, and mainly in the hands of missionaries.

4.   It was only towards the end of the colonial period that the notion of a public corporation was raised.

5.   The fugitive slave problem on the southeastern frontier dated back to the colonial period.

6.   The importance of graphite mining Declined late in the colonial period.

7.   An antique tea caddy from the colonial period.

8.   Among the Native American tribes of the colonial period, the Iroquois were known for their belligerence.

9.   Population anxiety among the ruling classes was crystallized during the colonial periods of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.