Culture of the new england colonies?

Answer 1

they had meeting houses in most towns, northern colonies usually grew in sustenance, which means they grew grops to just support themselves but make profit by mass producing fish, because of all the small peninulas and capes.

Answer 2

The culture of the New England colonies centered around their religious beliefs. They believed that the body should not be idle, and people should not be frivolous. They worked long hours. They read and wrote about religion. They did not play sports or spend time on leisure activities.

Answer 3

Life in the Three Groups of ColoniesNEW ENGLAND

The New England colonies were further north and therefore had longer, colder winters than other colonies. The soil in New England was full of large rocks. It was difficult to find large plots of land that could be used for crops. These are the two main reasons people in New England seldom became serious farmers.

Because New England was covered with trees, people in New England used the trees for lumber and to build ships. Ships were used to fish or to hunt for whales. New England is the closest group of colonies to the Grand Banks. With many ships, New England became the leader in ocean shipping/commerce.

The Puritan religion was the center of life in New England. (Puritans in America eventually became Congregationalists.) Puritans believed that God would reward "hard working people". They built meeting houses in the centers of their cities. These were used for church as well as town meetings. All men who were church members and property owners could speak and vote at town meetings.

THE MIDDLE COLONIES

The Middle Colonies had a milder climate and much better soil than New England. Settlers in the Middle Colonies had come from the Netherlands, Germany, Sweden, France, and Scotland. (Some people called the Middle Colonies the Melting Pot.)

The Middle Colonies were well suited for small farms, and thus, became known as the "Bread Basket" because of all the grains (wheat, oats, barley, rye) that were grown in the Middle Colonies and then shipped to Philadelphia and New York.

As Philadelphia and New York grew as trading centers, manufacturing increased. Philadelphia also became an important shipbuilding center.

THE SOUTHERN COLONIES

The climate in the Southern Colonies was the warmest of the English colonies. The warm climate made it possible to grow crops throughout the year. The land was flat and the soil was rich. Tobacco and rice were the two most important cash crops. The climate was ideally suited for plantations where slaves did the manual labor.

Most of the southerners were from England, so the church of choice was the Anglican church. Taxes were paid to this church.

Family Life, Role of Women, and Social Classes

The head of the house was the father. He made the rules. Women had few rights. They could not vote. A women needed permission from her father or husband to own land, go into business, or to sign a contract.

There were four social classes. The weathy and well educated made up the upper class. Small business owners, farmers, and artisans made up the middle class, the largest class. The lower class included servants and farm workers. The lowest of all were the slaves, who had the fewest rights. Slaves were considered property.

Religion and Education

In the early 1700s a religious movement called the Great Awakening caused people to think about equality. It said all men are equal under God and told people to read The Bible themselves.

In 1647, Massachusetts passed the first public school laws. It said towns with 50 families or more must hire a teacher and towns with 100 families or more must build a grammer school. Public schools for boys became common in New England. Girls could attend dame schools held in someone's home.

Public schools did not develop in the Middle or Southern colonies. Sons of the wealthy could attend private schools, however. Children of planters in Southern colonies were home schooled.

Boys that reached the age of 12 or more could learn a trade by becoming an apprentice. An apprentice would work with a master craftsman for several years before becoming a journeyman. After a journeyman became experienced on his own, he then could be considered a master craftsman himself.

Colonial Trade

England passed laws called the Navigation Acts to ensure the economic system called Mercantilism would be applied in their colonies. Mercantilism required colonies to provide raw materials to their mother country and to buy finished products from their mother country. It was a way for a mother country to become rich because it always insured a favorable balance of trade. However, England did not always enforce the Navigation Acts. The non-enforcement of the Navigation Acts was called "Salutary Neglect".

Trianglular Trade route developed between the 13 colonies and England and the West Indies (Caribbean Islands). Other triangular trade routes developed between the colonies, Africa and the West Indies. Other routes included European ports as well. Any route that took ships to places other than England were suppose to be illegal according to the Navigation Acts.

THE NAVIGATION ACTS

(1) Raw materials could only be shipped to/from other English colonies to/from England. In other words, raw materials from New England colonies could be shipped to England or to the Middle or Southern colonies.

(2) Finished products could only be shipped from England to the colonies. It was illegal to send finished products made in the Middle colonies to other colonies.

(3) Finished products bought in countries other than England had to be shipped to England first before being shipped to the colonies.

(4) All products would be shipped in English or Colonial ships.

Answer 4

Colonial

they had meeting houses and sustenence farmed while also mass producing

Answer 5

there were none really!