1. The New England Colony
Life in the Colony

2. 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.

3. 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

4. Net Standards

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

6. 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.

7. 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.

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

9. 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.

10. 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.

11. 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

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

13. 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

14. Resources Websites:
What Was Family Life Like in Colonial New England? | eHow.com