Home Life In Colonial America Life in colonial America was different for each of the colonies, however, one thing remained the same: home life. Every person had a different job or task, whether it was on the farm, in the home, or elsewhere. Everything each person did made a huge difference in the home, community, and even the economy. The roles of each family member widely varied. Fathers, children, and spouses had their own duties that no one else could fulfill. The mothers would stay around the house and tend to the home needs. They made candles so the family would have light; they also had to clean day to day because of the dust from the open fires. Fortunately for the rest of the family, the mothers knew how to spin, weave, and sew so …show more content…
Church and religion was huge in the colonial times among the people. Before churches, these committed people would meet under trees or in a house if someone volunteered and called them meetinghouses. The people started building meetinghouses out of clay, and then eventually started using brick. The first and most famous brick meetinghouse was named the “Old Ship” which is placed in Hingham, Maine. These meetinghouses did not have pews, but had wooden seats that resembled shelves. They did not have heat so some people would bring in foot stoves, which were just small stoves, and set them in front of their feet to keep warm. Some people got permission to bring in their dogs, if they behaved, and have them lay on their feet. There was no music for the hymns, so most of the people were off beat and sounded terrible, although, some wooden instruments were introduced later. The services usually lasted four to five hours and the prayers were just one or two hours shorter than services. Most interesting is the law that stated everyone had to attend church or they would be punished or fined. Everyone also had assigned seats in the church. The young boys would sit in the pulpit with a chaperone while the young girls usually sat at their mothers’ feet. If someone were not in their assigned seat they’d also be punished or fine. Doing anything else on a Sunday, fishing, working, etc. was
People worked all day on their family farms, doing anything from cleaning to cooking to harvesting, depending on the age and gender of the person doing said work. On Sabbath no one worked and everyone was expected to attend one of the many Puritan churches. Neighbors looked out for each other, for better or worse. Admittedly, sometimes this lead to an entire family’s excommunication, but the colonists believed they were doing the right thing. At the same time, Virginians had a very different sense of community.
As we can see in the chapters before the family dynamics was completely different in a sense of being together all the time, doing chores and farming together. As the country started to develop more and more, families only saw each other after working a job from 9-5pm. As Divine states, “in factories and working offices family members rarely worked together”(Divine, page 449). The families were divided in a working class family as the city life progressed. For working class families this had to take a toll on children because in a natural setting children would be at school for most of the time while their parents worked.
Native American women in the southern colonies not only worked the fields but also attended to the house and the children. They often did all of this while being
Kids, wives, and husbands all worked together to get things
Colonial churches were not only a venue for church services, but they were also used for political and social events during colonial times. Christians who regularly attended church would be present
Women/Kids – when a female was 15 – 16, the father would go out and find a husband for his daughter and if the girl had no father then the mother would negotiate on his behalf. Kids did not go to school, Karl kids were taught by there parents and Jarl kids were also taught by there parents or they hired
If a slave worked on a plantation they would have their own little quarters, or cabins, in which they lived. These quarters mainly consisted of a blanket, for their bed, or sometimes ,if the owners were nice, a tiny wooden bed. Women and children slaves usually worked in the houses of their owners, or the field themselves. If slaves worked on a field, it meant working from sunup to sundown for six days a week. As a result of the slaves working different jobs, there was a sort of class system between slaves.
For women in the Southern Colonies had very few legal rights such as not being able to vote or preach. Most women had difficult jobs most of the women 's jobs were being homemakers. Life for the women were hard and unforgiving. Life for the colonial women had to work on farms.
Living in Colonial America is very different than any other part in the world, especially when they didn’t know what’s around them. Colonial America was very hard for the new pilgrims. Not only is it hard when they didn’t have houses set up, but also life was made harder during the winter when it was freezing outside. After they set up different town's life began to become a little easier. In the town of Salem, the Witch trials popped up around 1692 and made life hard again.
What life was like for early colonists What was a man’s role in the colony ? Depending on their skills they would build or rebuild houses,fences and farms. Some would also go hunting for food and keep predators away form their loved ones and livestock.
Housing in the southern colonies depended in your social status. Wealthier families would live on plantations with stone and brick buildings, the slave usually lived on the plantations with their owners. New England colonies had a fair class system mainly made up of a wealthy merchant class. Men were the head of the households in the southern colonies while the women did much of the house work cooking, cleaning, quilting and raising the
Life is different out here in the new land. I’m living in a colony named Connecticut with my friends named John and Bill. Before I got here, Connecticut was discovered 5th out of the 13 colonies founded. Connecticut's major city is known as Hartford, New Haven. Connecticut was also founded in 1636 by Thomas Hooker and others.
In early America, the first successful colony was called the Jamestown Colony. It took a while for this new country to fill up, though. This was because, in the beginning, many people died from disease, starvation, and Native American attacks. Many people in the early Jamestown Colony died from a disease. “Summer sickness kills half the colonists” (J. Frederick Fausz, “An Abundance of Bloodshed on Both Sides: England’s First Indian War 1609-1614,” The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, January 1990).
The New England colony believed they were called by God to start a colony. “Let us trace . . .[the] men
In a family there are many different roles; there's the role of the mother, the father, the child, the grandparents, then there’s the brothers and sisters. Every single one of those roles has different responsibilities. The father, according to most of society, is supposed to be the breadwinner for the family. However, nowadays the mother is actually quite capable of being the breadwinner just as much of as the father. As they work to show their children what it is to be an adult they are teaching them as well on how to be an active member of society.