The New England Colony Life in the Colony

Georgia Performance Standards SS4H3. Students will explain the factors that shaped British Colonial America. Compare and contrast life in the New England, Mid-Atlantic, and Southern Colonies.

National Standards NSS-USH.K-4.1 LIVING AND WORKING TOGETHER IN FAMILIES AND COMMUNITIES, NOW AND LONG AGO • Understands family life now and in the past, and family life in various places long ago

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Life in New England Colony Clement Differences in the Colonies Economy Schooling Homes Settlers Clothing Family

Clement The warmest of the three colonial regions. Positive things about warmer climate, they didn’t have to worry about surviving the cold winters. Negative effect of warmer climate, the warm moist climate carries diseases.

Difference in Colonies New England Harsh rocky soil makes farming hard. Land granted to group and towns that was subdivided between the families. Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New Hampshire. Middle Blended other two River system and ports provided access to back country an Atlantic New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware. Southern Favorable agricultural climate. Export crops: “cash crops” as tobacco Larger slave population was needed here. Maryland, Virginia, South Carolina, Georgia.

Economy Largely farming and fishing communities. Make their own clothes and shoes. Grew their own food.

Schooling Children learned about Christianity. Parents taught their children to read the Bible. After they could read the bible they could read school books. New England villages having more than 100 families set up grammar schools, which taught boys Latin and math and other subjects needed to get into college. And although girls could read, they weren't allowed to go to grammar school or to college.

Homes Used building traditions from the medieval England times. Using whatever they could find to build with. For winter they would build single-story Cape Cod houses with massive chimneys placed at the center of the home.

Settlers Region was named by a man, Captain John Smith, who explored its shores in 1614 for some London merchants. Then New England was soon settled by the English Puritans

fashioned from wool and linen cloth, with some leather Clothing fashioned from wool and linen cloth, with some leather

Family Family was very interdependent on each other God-fearing household Family life was centered around religion and hard work. Obedience was expected of the children, Punishment for improper behavior

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