When the new confederate government issued its call to arms, men flocked to enlist slaves began to escape in record numbers most poor whites refused to answer many southerners were ambivalent about joining up

The north american colonies experienced a steady increase in population since the first settlement in jamestown in 1607. by 1775, the colonies' population was around 2,500,000, and most of the colonists lived east of the allegheny mountains. how did geography influence the settlement of america's first colonies?