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Back then, family consisted of grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins, and stepchildren. Today family is mostly classified as parents and children. People got married usually in their early to mid-20s. If you were an indentured servant, you had to gain your freedom before you can get married. The families were quite large back then because they had lots of kids and family outside of your immediate family lived with you. Everyone looked after each other because malaria was common and took the lives of many children.

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To make work go faster, they established groups of people called bees. This made work go faster because they had groups of people doing activities and it was also fun. This included cutting down trees, putting up barns, or preparing meals. Some leisure activities included: tag, trock (billiards), sledding, "bowling", cards, arm wrestling, and horse racing.

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Schools today are very different from colonial times. Back then, they were one room with one level and a fireplace on a wall. Today, we have numerous resources unlike colonial times. Pencils were scarce and other materials were too. Here was how education was in the colonial regions.

England Colony: They had mostly Public Schools.

Middle Colony: Different religions taught children in different ways. It was based on the religion.

Southern Colony: They had "classes" along the river. They could also have personal teachers or sent out to distant schools.

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Life in the city was not as labor intensive as a farm. One out of every twenty people lived there. You could be a blacksmith, fisherman, priest, etc. It smelled like garbage, church bells rang and blacksmiths hammered all day. You could eat fish, eggs, milk, or cheese, and they lit their homes with torches.

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Religion was very popular in the colonies. Services were very long and important. Listed below is the cause and effects of the "Great Awakening".

1st, people felt they were losing their religious faith.

2nd, the "Great Awakening" began in the 1730's.

3rd, ideas like "all people are equal in gods eyes were spread through the colonies.

4th, the ideas spread strengthened the principles of liberty, equality, and self-reliance.

5th, in the 1770's, colonists finally valued the ideals of the "Great Awakening".

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Slaves started in Virginia because of tobacco plants.

Then on it traveled north and south and numerous

places in colonial America had slaves. Slaves had no

hope of pursuing better lives because their position

was at rock bottom and they were under the order

of whites.

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English citizens felt that they should have the same rights as everyone else.

1215: English citizens could now participate in the government after Magna Carta convinced King John to sign the "Great Charter".

1265: Parliament was made and they could say what goes after the King/Queen presented ideas. They were voted representatives.

1689: English Bill of Rights was created and said that the power belonged to the people and they could vote on laws and taxes.

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Life on a farm was very hard,

you had numerous chores

like cooking, cleaning, clearing

land, etc. In order to get wood,

you actually had to go cut down

trees unlike today. Their homes

were one room and 1 level buildings.

Finally, nine out of ten people lived

on a farm.