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Making a Living (economic activities)

NE: Fishing & Timber (exported) Shipbuilding & shipping (merchants) & jobs related to this industry like carpenters, coopers, sailmakers, rope & naval products. The Triangular Trade made Boston the largest city in the colonies.

King George III

Monarch

Seeds of Democracy

ROLE OF RELIGION

Middle (Breadbasket): Farming & Agriculture

Business & Trade (supplied wheat & flour) to other colonies and overseas

Artisans! Taylors, Ironmakers, Brickmakers, Sawmills, Millers

NE: VERY IMPORTANT! MOst of the NE ws founded for religious freedom. Everyone had to read, understand the Bible and follow the laws which were based on scripture.

Southern: Plantation Farming--Cash Crops (tobacco, rice, and indigo) slave labor (slavery)

Plantations were like little towns with everything needed there on the property.

Most people were farmers (small farms,) hunters, trappers

  • Early colonists were independent and self -reliant.
  • Some were willing to work hard to create a better material life for themselves and their families.
  • Many early colony charters allowed for self government.
  • Participation in government soon became the norm.
  • Individualism became the basis of society. Colonists thought and did for themselves.
  • Free White Men make what they wanted of themselves---the right to own land was huge.
  • Early laws guaranteed various civil rights like: trial by jury, freedom of religion, separation of church & state
  • Britain did not rule the colonies with much consistency.

Remember: The colonies weren't democracies BUT there was a great emphasis placed on individualism, independence, self-government, and individual rights.

Middle: Many Religions: Protestants, Catholics, Lutherns, Amish, Quakers, Mennonites, Jews

Not one religion dominated like in NE ~ More tolerant of differences

Southern:

Christian - Followed the Anglican Church and English Traditions

Enslaved Africans brough tribal religions but converted to Christianity. As time go on, they will see a parallel between their situation and the Jews who were enslaved in Egypt in the Old Testament

SETTLERS & SETTLEMENTS

New England Primer

NE: From England

Pilgrims / Puritans (religious freedom)

Towns & Villages

Boston (biggest port city)

EDUCATIONAL BELIEFS/PRACTICES/GOV'T

Middle: NYC & Philadelphia are major port cities

Settlers came from varied backgrounds

FRONTIER: Young couples, Newly Arriving Immigrants, Former Indentured Servants, Former slaves, ex-convicts. They wanted:

1. cheap land

2. a new start

3. adventure

4. freedom from laws

Men & Women worked together

NE: Education a must! All needed to be able to read and write to understand the Bible and the laws.

1st public school (1647) hired teachers!

1st college: Harvard! ~ LAWYERS!

Meetinghouses--Find out what went on there on your own....

Southern: Mostly rural areas with few towns / 1 large city: Chares Town (Charleston, SC)

Hundred of thousands of enslaved Africans brought to the South to work plantations

poor living conditions - skin color now used as identifying status

many ran away / some bought their freedom (skilled workers) (not as restrictive as the 1800s)

Settlers were mostly English and friends of the King then later.... Irish, Scotch, French

Middle: No Public Schools-Children taught at: church or private schools

Others leanred a craft or skill--Apprentice then evenually a master craftsman

Representavtie Government

COMMUNITY LIFE / CLASS STRUCTURE

Southern: Wealthy received an education privately at home

Boys taught sciences, history, Latin, Greek, philosophy, mathematics

Girls taught manners, sewing, & how to entertain (some of the other too but not like the boys)

SLAVE CODES

HOUSE OF bURGESSES (VA) representative gov't

NE: Way of life based on Puritan work ethic & strict rules most settlers were from England and shared the same religious beliefs

Women played an important role -- worked side by side with their husbands

FAMILY WAS VERY IMPORTANT

RELIGION WAS VERY IMPORTANT

*What we consider typical American values (work hard, get an education, be a good person) comes from NE

The Great Awakening

Middle: Patroon System of Landownership (find out what this means)

Settlers come from many different places and brought many different:

languages, customs, culture, religions, farming methods/practices, food types, ideas

Most came for the chance at a better life!

NYC will be main immigration point (eventually Ellis Island) (evenually Statue of Liberty)

Southern: Plantations were center of Southern Life (mansion, small out buildings, slave quarters (self-sustaining)

Class Structure: Upper Class was rich planters

Middle Class: farmers w/ small farms or worked for planters

Slaves at the bottom -- NO rights

GEOGRAPHY

NE: harsh climate (rocky, hilly soil) only 1 harvest per year

Heavy forest; near the Atlantic (Boston)

Middle: rich soil, longer growing season, rivers used to ship goods to NYC & Philly - conestoga wagons overland - climate more mild than NE

Southern: Rich soil, long hot growing seasons (humid summers & wet winters) located along the coast Chesapeake Bay / Tidewater Area Rivers: Potomac, James, York (Charleston, SC and then Savannah, GA)

LIFE IN THE COLONIES

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