The New England Colony

Life in the Colony

SS4H3. Students will explain the factors that shaped British Colonial America. Compare and contrast life in the New

England, Mid-Atlantic, and Southern Colonies.

Georgia Performance 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

National Standards

Net Standards

Creativity and Innovation

Students demonstrate creative thinking, construct knowledge, and develop innovative products and processes using technology. Students:

b. create original works as a means of personal or group expression. Research and Information Fluency

Students apply digital tools to gather, evaluate, and use information. Students:

d. process data and report results.

Clement Differences in the Colonies Economy Schooling Homes Settlers Clothing Family

Life in New England Colony

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.

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.

Economy

Largely farming and fishing communities.

Make their own clothes and shoes.

Grew their own food.

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.

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.

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

fashioned from wool and linen cloth, with

some leather

Clothing

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

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