13 Colonies History
By Kelly, Alexis, Luke, and Sam
Culture By Alexis Collier
Family Rolls
a colonial farm was both home and workplace. Women cooked, made butter and cheese, and preserved food. they spun yarn, made cloths, and tended chickens and cows. men worked in the fields and built barns, houses, and fences. families often arranged for their sons to work as indentured servants for farmers or to serve as apprentices.
Education
Most colonists valued education. In New England and Pennsylvania, in particular, school systems were set up to make that everyone could read and study the Bible.
The Enlightenment
The movement, which began in Europe, spread the idea that knowledge, reason, and science could improve society.
Freedom of the Press
Free speech was a basic right of the English
The right, guaranteed by the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, to gather, publish, and distribute information and ideas without government restriction; this right encompasses freedom from prior restraints on publication and freedom from Censorship.
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Government By Luke Siler
The origins of Virginia began in 1607 with the founding of Jamestown. The Virginia Company, which had been given the charter to found the colony, set up a General Assembly. In 1624, Virginia became a royal colony when the Virginia Company's charter was revoked. However, the General Assembly stayed in place which helped set a model for representative government in this and other colonies.
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Religion By Sam Kravchuk
Religion in the Colonies was extremely diverse and many of the religious groups, such as the Puritans and the Quakers established the first of the 13 colonies on the basis of their religious beliefs. The long, hazardous, 3000 mile trip from Europe to North America was undertaken by many in a search for religious freedom.
The Mayflower Pilgrims
The Puritans who undertook the voyage to the New World on the Mayflower were led by William Bradford. These Puritans were called Separatists who believed in a pure Christian church, with no vestige of the Catholic religion. They established the Plymouth Settlement in New England who later came to be known as the "Pilgrim Fathers" or simply as the Pilgrims.
The Quakers
William Penn (1644-1718) was famous as a follower of the Quaker religion and the leader of the Pennsylvania Colony. William Penn promoted the ideals of religious tolerance. He was extreme in his religious fervor and whilst in England he strongly criticised the Church of England (Anglicans).
http://www.landofthebrave.info/religion-in-the-colonies.htm
Economics By Kelly Prince
Commerce In New England
New England had many small businesses some people even used the water power from the streams on their land to run mills for grinding grain, sawing lumber. Woman made cloth garments candles or soap, they made enough to sell or trade. Big towns attracted skilled craftspeople who set themselves up as printers, furniture makers, shoemakers, gunsmiths, metal smiths and blacksmiths. Also Shipbuilding was an important industry the lumber for building ships came from the forest of New England and was transported down rivers to shipyards in coastal towns.
Trade
They crossed the Atlantic with furs fish and fruit to trade for manufactured goods in England and Europe.They used the Triangular trade route it was called this because the stops formed a triangle
The middle passage was the inhumane part of the route that was the shipping of enslaved Africans.
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