Life In Colonial America
How was life like in the southern colonies? They did not have any modern day technology and any quick means of transportation other than horses and ships. They also had a different lifestyle from what we have today were men went to school and got educated and women instead got taught how to run the house and take care of the young children. Men had different jobs where they tended to the farm and created furniture. There are many differences from colonial lifestyle and ours and the lifestyle of the southern colonists affected their lifestyle.
During colonial times, southern colonists lived on farms where they grew almost everything they needed to survive like cotton for creating clothes and growing crops like corn for food.The farm was not just a place to make lively hood, but according to Maryland “As in Virginia tobacco was used as money. In fact, Maryland used tobacco as its currency for three years after the colonists landed.” (30). Colonial families were generally large because the more children you had the more people you had to help you farm. Today only a fraction of people live on farms and import most goods and crops from other countries. Also most families today generally are small and have 1 to 3 children because in the modern world it is difficult to provide for a big family and children do not generally work until the age of 16. …show more content…
According to “southern colonies” “people cleared land and a mild climate that allowed people living in the southern colonies to grow staple and exotic plants for the market” “(2)” this helped create a lifestyle where the could run plantations which helped them thrive. The colonists were not able to run plantations by themselves so they created slavery which caused them to treat the slaves inhumanely and caused slaves to live a life where they worked and where they were treated as animals sometimes even worse. That was how life was like in the southern
During colonial times, southern colonists lived on farms where they grew almost everything they needed to survive like cotton for creating clothes and growing crops like corn for food.The farm was not just a place to make lively hood, but according to Maryland “As in Virginia tobacco was used as money. In fact, Maryland used tobacco as its currency for three years after the colonists landed.” (30). Colonial families were generally large because the more children you had the more people you had to help you farm. Today only a fraction of people live on farms and import most goods and crops from other countries. Also most families today generally are small and have 1 to 3 children because in the modern world it is difficult to provide for a big family and children do not generally work until the age of 16. …show more content…
According to “southern colonies” “people cleared land and a mild climate that allowed people living in the southern colonies to grow staple and exotic plants for the market” “(2)” this helped create a lifestyle where the could run plantations which helped them thrive. The colonists were not able to run plantations by themselves so they created slavery which caused them to treat the slaves inhumanely and caused slaves to live a life where they worked and where they were treated as animals sometimes even worse. That was how life was like in the southern