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CHAPTER 4 – COLONIAL LIFE. Overview. American colonies becoming more crowded and dissatisfied as well as gradually more democratic and united by 1763 - Evaluat e this statement for its validity. New England Freeholder Society. Women lgly subordinate Leftover from Puritan Society
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Overview • American colonies becoming more crowded and dissatisfied as well as gradually more democratic and united by 1763 - Evaluate this statement for its validity
New England Freeholder Society • Women lgly subordinate • Leftover from Puritan Society • Men were more easily able to escape class system • Inheritance was taken very seriously • Created groups of individual property owners • Would effect # of children families had (would decrease as population increased) • NE changed to corn and a household model of production • Cottage industry
Middle Colonies – Hudson Valley • Land owned by a few families to follow European Model • Harder to draw ppl to work there • Much harder to move up in society b/c grain took a lot more labor • Tenants got rights and long leases to draw labor
Middle Colonies – PA and NJ • Quaker dominated • Quakers = direct relationship with God • Few wealthy families • Used immigrants for labor • This kept a strong class distinction • Practice of quality drew many Germans • “peaceable kingdom” • Women owned land (following the German model)
Middle Colonies – Scots-Irish • Lgly looking for religious freedom and opportunity • Added more diversity, but cultures did not mix much
Role of Religion and Government • Until 1740s each religious region was able to enforce government regulations based upon religion • Remember salutary neglect and lower populations made this possible • With the influx of immigrants, Quakers and Puritans would become the minority and had increasing amounts of trouble enforcing religious doctrine upon ppl who didn’t agree • Society begins to shift toward a more secular society
Today: With your group, please discuss the following: WHY each region developed the way they did PREDICT how these regional personalities will affect their reaction to the end of salutary neglect
Chapter 4 questions: • In what ways were the lives of women and men in New England similar? In what ways were they different? • What was the threat to the freehold ideal in mid-century New England, and what strategies did farming families use to preserve this ideal? • Who were the new migrants to the MIddle colonies? Why did they leave Europe? What were their goals in British North America? • What were the main issues that divided the ethnic and religious groups of the Middle colonies?