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What did the average colonial man, woman, child look like?

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What did the average colonial man, woman, child look like?

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Most wore thicker material dresses, suit(?) and trousers with semi-simple dress shirts.

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How did they feel about public education?

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How did they feel about public education?

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The people in colonial Virginia had no public-schools, school buses, no school boards, no department of education, and no debate of modifying school boundaries. So they really had no feeling about it, because they didn't fight to have it and they didn't have it at all. Really, all of the teaching that they would get is from their parents, if they had any. So it was kind of rough with the school subject.

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school in colonial times - Google Search

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What were schools like in colonial times? Click here to read about · early school houses. Where did young children go to school? Click here to read · about Dame Schools. What were the teachers like in colonial schools? Click here to read about the teachers.

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What was the capital and two other major major cities or towns? What was at the center of these cities/towns?

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What was the capital and two other major major cities or towns? What was at the center of these cities/towns?

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The capital of Virginia was different at different times. From 1607-1699 the capital was Jamestown. From 1699-1776 was Williamsburg. So the capital had changed. Though when researching more, it said that the top tree major cities were: Jamestown, Williamsburg and Richmond. At the center of Virginia, there were all of these little towns and cities.

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What type of government did the colony have and who were allowed to be in charge?

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What type of government did the colony have and who were allowed to be in charge?

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the colony thrived on a stable crop, Tobacco. They mostly had indentured servants doing that while this "business" literally started their government.

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Each would manufacture glass, pitch and tar production and beer and wine making. Which took advantage of natural resources and the fertility of the land.

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 What were the names of the major waterways where they transported good into the interior of the colony?

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 What were the names of the major waterways where they transported good into the interior of the colony?

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They had a tidewater, (Tidewater region is a geographic area of southeast Virginia and northeastern North Carolina. The area got its name because of the effects of the changing tides on local rivers, and the ocean (Atlantic).

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Which of three areas did your colony exsit.

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Which of three areas did your colony exsit.

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It was only in London

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How much did the church impact their rules 

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How much did the church impact their rules 

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In 1624 white Virginians were required by law to attend and support the Church of England. By 1775 they established Baptist, Methodists, and Presbyterians churches.

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What rights did the colonists have and from where did they get their rights?

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What rights did the colonists have and from where did they get their rights?

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They did have rights and they got them from the Virginia Declaration of Rights. It states in the very beginning "THAT all men are by nature equally free and independent, and have certain inherent rights, of which, when they enter into a state of society, they cannot, by any compact, deprive or divest their posterity; namely, the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the means of acquiring and possessing property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety." So they were able to have rights, but they were limited

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What were the class differences in the different colonies?

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What were the class differences in the different colonies?

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Enslaved field workers, who worked in Tobacco fields. Enslaved house servants, they did all main things a women would do in the household, yet the didn't have much time to themselves.

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The colonists had believed in slavery. They had slaves and they had worked them for their own purposes. They had the slaves make food, clothes, and collect the crops. Though they did have a place for them to sleep and live, but they got practically no money. They did have the slaves in early colonial Virginia, and the colonists had the slaves work for them.

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History of slavery in Virginia - Wikipedia

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Slavery in Virginia dates to 1619, soon after the founding of Virginia as an English colony by the London Virginia Company. The company established a headright system to encourage colonists to transport indentured servants to the colony for labor; they received a certain amount of land for people whose passage they paid to Virginia.

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How was life different between life in the city or rural area?

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How was life different between life in the city or rural area?

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Life in Virginia could go one of two ways -city or rural. With the rural side of Virginia, there were plantation and few neighbors. They work on selling cash crops to earn money and live in a small house on the land that they own. The city side of Virginia

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How was crime and punishment dealt with?

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How was crime and punishment dealt with?

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What was their relationship with the Native Americans

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What was their relationship with the Native Americans

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Their relationship with the Native Americans was a bit different than you'd think. The Indians had mixed feeling about the English. The Indians had attacked the English before their ships even came to the land. So I think that the relationship between the Native Americans and the Virginians was a bit complicated.

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How did they make money/what was their economy based on?

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How did they make money/what was their economy based on?

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In colonial Virginia, most of the people would make money by growing and selling cash crops. This was because they normally lived in houses that had places for farming and growing the crops to sell. The biggest thing in the economy was tobacco. this was because farming was the thing that people did in Virginia for money. So this was really what was revolved around by the people.

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Where did most of the people in the colony come from?

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Where did most of the people in the colony come from?

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In 1606, a group of wealthy London businessmen petitioned King James I for a charter to establish a colony in the New World. They decided to make a Virginia Company together. They had planned to go out and establish a place for themselves. They were in competition with the Spanish who had stolen treasures and wealth from the natives. In 1607 104 English men had landed. They traveled up the James River to establish a settlement out of sight from passing Spanish pirates who might sack the town or steal the supplies. They had later conquered Virginia and there were other people there. So there were soon other people coming into the land and it was mostly the native and the people from London, though they were really a mix

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What were the main geographical features?

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What were the main geographical features?

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The main geographical features were very different. They had swamps, waterways which lead to oceans. Then that sort of transition from water to a/the Piedmont plateau

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What religion(s) were practiced/allowed 

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What religion(s) were practiced/allowed 

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White Virginians were required to attend by law and to support the Church of England

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Over two million people lived in the 13 colonies and about 500,000 of them lived in Virginia, the largest and most populous colony. They were located in Virginia, though there wasn't a specific place that was named, of where they were.