13 Colonies Times
By Caleb , Wade , Matthew, Richard
Economics
The economy in the colonies was either growing crops to sell, household jobs, or building ships. A very good cash crop in the southern colonies was tobacco because it grew well and was very expensive and only people who had lots of money could buy it. Household jobs include blacksmiths, Newspaper offices, and shops were often found in the middle colonies. The New England colonies had a very good shipbuilding and fishing economy. the Navigation acts were put into action after Britain decided that the colonies were their big money maker so they could not ship tobacco to other counties. So the colonists started to smuggle tobacco into the ships going to other counties.
Culture
Culture
The 13 colonies revolved around a religious revival called the Great Awakening. Also in the Middle colonies, a return in strong faith from the earlier days, came from ministers called for “a new birth”. One of these preachers, Jonathan Edwards, made people think his sermons were powerful and convincing. George Whitefield, the English Preacher, arrived in the colonies in 1739.
Education, Religion, and the arts contributed to a new American culture. A colonial farm was both home and a workplace. The father’s family role was to care for his children,work in the fields, build barns, houses,and fences. Men were the representatives of a family. Women weren’t allowed to speak at church meetings, vote at church meetings, or serve as clergy. Their family roles were cooking, making butter and cheese, preserved food, spin yarn make clothes, and tend chickens and cows. They needed children for work in the fields.
Goverment
The government for the thirteen colonies is represented as part of the English Government. White man who owned property had the right to vote. There are three group in the thirteen that were found all different ways. Charter colonies were established by settlers who had been given a charter. Proprietary Colonies were ruled by proprietors. There were individuals or groups to whom Britain had granted land. Royal Colonies, Britain directly ruled all royal colonies.
Religion
Religion
The 13 colonies had many religions. They had Quakers,(who founded Pennsylvania) Catholics, Lutherans, a few Jews, and others. Most of the colonists were puritans. Most people from the southern colonies are baptist and Anglicans. Most colonies called themselves “Christians” which is any religion that has a God.