Frankie Turner Dr. Goleman HIS 108 September 15, 2014 Life in Colonial America By the early 1700’s more than 250,000 settlers of European descent lived within what is not the United States, they covered most of the eastern seaboard. The New England colonies span modern-day Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Maine, Connecticut, and Rhode Island. New England’s economy was built around home town farming, fishing and manufactures of homes, as well as the sea trade and shipbuilding. This had a huge impact on why the region expanded as quickly when more immigrants ventured in and in return you seen families grow more steadily. Life in Colonial America was stable for the New Englanders. They often outlived their British counterparts or colonists in other regions this was due in large part to a healthier diet. However Puritan communities were so close-knit because …show more content…
To be able to vote or hold office, a person had to be in good standing with the church. The superstition also did lead to the most notorious scandal: The Salem Witch Trials of 1692, and 1693. By 1641, 55 percent of the males in Massachusetts were able to vote. Connecticut also made a similar government with even more voting rights all males land owners were granted suffrage after the Fundamental Order of Connecticut and as such became the first written constitution of the New World. A few similarities stood out in the colonial American. To start with, all colonies were treated as a business enterprise with the chief expectation being to bring profits to corporate owners, the king, and the individual proprietors. As well, these colonies formed part of a global trade empire bound to the world around them. More so, the colonialists believed themselves to be culturally, racially, and spiritually superior to the slaves, and Indians. Lastly, the colonists believed in property being the source of liberty- losing it meant the loss of their