Colonial Women In North America Analysis

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1. Gonda- Colonial Women. Describe the situation of colonial women in North America and use examples from the essay to illustrate your answer.
The situation of colonial women in North America was conflictive. The colonial women arrived at American with the blood of their European ancestors, but they were different in numbers. Firstly, the article did point out that men paid attention to women's need because of their value. In the early time, colonial women were important for they contributes of productive and reproduction of labors that consisted of social communities. However, such importance was not considered those colonial women as independent individuals but more like tools. For instance, Elizabeth's husband admitted

At the beginning, American culture mainly followed the European style. In the late 1700s, American culture began to develop towards Federalism from Revolution. By 1777, the United States declared it a nation and carried out the Declaration of Independence and the Articles of Confederation. After that, in 1786, Yale hosted a graduation debate and the College also inspired a group of optimistic poets known as the "Connecticut Wits." John Trumbull published America's first epic poem called M'Fingal. Trumbull fashioned his work after those of British poets and included many humorous classical references. However, the result is a loose work full of wry literary allusions. A future president of Yale Wit Timothy Dwight expressed great hope for America's future. In his 1794 work "Greenfield Hill", Dwight expressed a hope that one day America would produce its own great works. During the era of revolution, many magazines appeared. United States Magazine, established in 1779 dealt with American issues and its writers showed an American perspective. The drama and theater profiled in the New York magazine attracted a mainly elite audience. In the 1760s, William Billings created several unique choral arrangements of sacred

They lived in the area between the Atlantic and Mississippi River valley, south of the Great Lakes, which was covered with oak and pine forest. They had their tribal culture. Before the European came to America, the Eastern Woodland Indians had their own governments which were consisted of a chief and his council. Their chiefs governed large political units and people lived together in the so-called longhouse. In the tribes, women had their own garden named of their name instead of their husbands’ name. They inherited the garden from their mother while men inherited those from their mother’s brother. Farmers also learned to raise new kinds of plants. Most tribes had their own animal spirits which were called totem. They believed that spirits had the ability to affect the material world and humans could share it. Most Woodlands peoples had the same religious rituals such as building mounds. Mounds were made either for burial or to support temples and homes of chiefs. Mounds had many different