Colonial Life: Multiple Perspectives by Jason Popoff

NE

2028evansn — 2023-10-24 12:05:29 UTC

Back in the day, almost everyone was a farmer. They grew their own crops and raised their animals to become meat. On market days, most farmers would socialize with other farmers. On sundays they all would go to church. On any other day, the farmers would stay on their farm and work. They sometimes hunted for food but this was pretty rare.

J,M

2028mcdonaldj — 2023-10-24 12:07:35 UTC

In 1690, charlestown south Carolina,was the fifth latgest city in the colonies by 1750 this city had a population of just less than 6000. Wiliamsburg virginia founded in 1699 was now the cappital of the largest and most populous colonies and has the second college founded in the colonies in 1693 but harvard in massacusets was the first.

CL

2023-10-24 12:07:38 UTC

This page talked about how women were trated unfairley for example, they had to get married at 13 or 14, they had to forefit property to their husband, and finnaly they often had little food to eat.

R.S

2023-10-24 12:08:21 UTC

Class was seperated by

Land
Wealth
Slavery

A good percent of people where the middle class and were mostly poor living and working on farms. About 75 to 50 percent of the population where farm owners. The upper rank had money and power cause of there land ownership.

MP

2023-10-24 12:09:13 UTC

On the page the "Urban Island in a Rural Culture" it was talking about how 1.1 million people lived in Britain's North America Colonies. Also the page was talking about in New England cities every town by a water mouth was engaged in shipbuilding which supported a lively economy with a diverse buisness side. Cities in the Middle Colonies traded with other people across the country to become wealthy which led to a more diverse community in the Middle Colonies cities.

A.M

2023-10-24 12:10:08 UTC

South carolina was the fith largest citie in 1690 they had a population of 1200 and they mostly focused on politcs thats what made them so popular or such a large citie in 1690 By 1750 this Southern city, with a free population of less than 6,000 boasted two theaters. Charleston also had a taxsupported free libraryone of the first in the North American colonies

C.N

2028nicklowc — 2023-10-24 12:11:38 UTC

In 1650, Anne Bradstreet (the first woman and first poet in colonial america) described the relationship between women and men this way:

It is but vain unjustly to wage war,
Men can do best, and women know it well.
Preeminence in each and all is yours—
Yet grant some small acknowledgment of ours.

A hundred years later, gender inequality was still the rule in british north America. In puritan religion preached that men and women were equal spiritually however women were not allowed to preach men. Men's work and womens work were strictly defined, on new england farms women were confined to household tasks and rarley worked in the feilds. Among pennsylvania Germans, however, it was common for women to work in the feilds with the men.

R. P.

2023-10-24 12:13:16 UTC

In North Carolina and most of the southern colonies main cash crops are tabaco, but then there's also sugar and cotton that they also use as cash crops to sell. Most people on a plantation are either slaves or indentured servants, even though most plantations are 20,000 acres usually are owned by a single family.

AF P7

2023-10-24 12:14:05 UTC

Boys were expected to work like their dads and girls were expected to work like their moms. Most kids were expected to learn how to read and right and the older kids were expected to teach the younger kids. In school, Boys and girls sat across from eachother in a poorly heated room. In other regions literacy was less common, they hired tutors for their children and established good schools, but other children were discouraged from from learning to read causing most children to be less literate.

C.s

2023-10-24 12:14:24 UTC

The navigation acts were created and were meant to be used so britain couldnt trade with any other europian colonies because its a race for wealth and power. Under the navigation acts all ships had to be british owned with mainly british crew. Additionaly cetain goods can only be shipped to britain like sugar cotton and tobacco mainly cash crops.

R.P

2023-10-24 12:14:49 UTC

In this chapter it basically talked about slavery and indentured servants and how life was for them. For example, indentured servants had the right to sue there masters and to try to testify against them in court.

The Spanish and Portuguese captured or kidnapped Africans from their homes and chained them into ships that carried them to North America. Then they forced the Africans into labor for life, thousands of miles from their homes and family with no way to return.

R.T, Slavery

2023-10-24 12:17:15 UTC

In this chapter is talked about slavery, when colonists came over they knew very little about the land, so the leaders turned to slaves and indentures. The Indentured servants were usually poor English who couldn't afford to come over, so they would pledge to work 5-7 years with anything the that contracted them asked, so what they got was a free passage.

They would capture Africans from their homelands and chain them up to a ship then force them to work when they got over. Even when the Africans had kids they would force labor upon them. The first group of Africans that were in the Atlantic English Settlements arrived in August of 1619. In 1662, a law in Virginia stated that the only whites could be Indentured Servants. Slaves could also be bought and sold as property.

Slavery in the north Ayelen

2023-10-24 12:18:01 UTC

In the north conditions for enslaved people were somewhat better than the south. There were no large plantation very few farmers owned enslaved labores and those who owned more that 1 or 2 were rare which meant that farmers my not need the slaves. In pennsylvania where the quakers and other religious groups had opposed slavery since the 1690;s slavery became increaingly unpopular. Slavery was not as popular becuase in the north and middle colonies there were a number of free african americans. They held many of the same types of jobs as the enslaved people of the north received wages and could come and go as they pleased. They were not equal to whites inder law and few white people regarded them as equals. Even though the lack of legal rights, some free African americans achieved distinction.

Slavery in the North, alyssa f

2023-10-24 12:18:12 UTC

Slavery in the North was slightly better for the enslaved people than in the South, this could be because few farmers owned enslaved laborers, more than one or two were rare, and there were no large plantations. Most enslaved people worked in shipyards of Boston and New York, or were skilled craftspeople, or others would have worked in the homes of the urban gentry. Another good thing about being an enslaved person in the North was you could live apart from your slave owner in a state of semi-freedom, but the difference between freedom and slavery was the frequent slave revolts. If you happened to be an African American in this time and worked as a slave, you would hold some of the same jobs as the enslaved people, but you would receive wages and you could come and go as you please. Sadly, you wouldn't be equal to whites under the law, but, a few white people regarded to African Americans as equals. Despite the lack of legal rights, some free African Americans achieved distinction. For example, Benjamin Banneker of Maryland was a self-taught engineer and astronomer, also one of the first scientists in America. Even though there were some free and some enslaved African Americans, they both had very different experiences to what it meant to be American. However, so did merchants, tenant farmers, whalers, and domestic servants.

MC

2023-10-24 12:19:52 UTC

On page 9, Slaves could not marry without their master’s consent, and many suffered poor food, beatings, and other abuse at their masters’ hands.

At the top of page 9 it says,"While a landowner or merchant might work as hard at his livelihood as a small farmer at his, the former enjoyed a great deal more leisure and luxury."

AB

2023-10-24 12:21:27 UTC

In passage 9 it talks a lot about the population in 1750, and how the population was 1.1 million people who lived in Britain's North American colonies and how 1 out of 20 lived in cities. It also talks about the population of other places like Philli, New York, and Boston, and it tells us their populations.

Further in the text it talks about enslaved people and importance or industry,trade and politics. We were also told about New Englands Shipbuilding and shipowners, and how they had an impact on the indastry. At the bottom of the text it talks a lot about goods and trades from all over and how a lot of people were enslaved over these areas. So in conclusion tab 9 is full of many different types of information in this for you to lesrn about the populations or enslaved people.

GJ

2023-10-24 12:22:32 UTC

Page 8 talked about what social ranks are and how people got to higher ranks, for example plantation owners were part of the upper class.