Plymouth "always remained small. After the founding of the [Massachusetts] Bay Colony, its population declined. When in the 1660s it could count three thousand souls within its boundaries, it was still only one-fourth or one-third the size of the Bay Colony." Powers does not give any source for his population estimate of <span>3000.</span>
The <span>relationship between the American colonies before the Revolutionary War was very "weak"--in that each state was largely completely independent from the other states both socially and economically. </span>
As feudalism faded, it was replaced by capitalism as land owners now used privatized farming for profit.
