Women In The 1600's

“This women has violated the roles rightly reserved for women participating in “manly activities”’, many rules made it so that it was not a land of opportunity for women, children and even Native Americans. During the 1600’s many people such as Native Americans, English, and African Americans, (both men and women) which played an important role in the question was it a land of opportunity for children, women, indentured servants, colonist and Native Americans. Children had to work before and after school, working on plantations or chores such as weaving clothes, or feeding animals which gave them little free time. Women didn’t have the rights they should of had, the men thought that women weren’t strong and that they shouldn 't be doing manly

Young children had to do chores including weaving clothes, feeding animals, harvesting and growing crops, cleaning, making food, making candles or dye which could be used later on, they had little free time because children would work before and after school. This supports my claimbecause, it was not a land of opportunity for children because, it gave them little free time to play with friends, these chores took the children along time, making them have little free time. Children got lashed for punishments, their lashes were at least 2-10 lashes, these lashes were for the simplest actions the children did such as telling lies, or even touching others. This supports my claim, that it was not a land of opportunity for children because, with the amount of lashes they got it made it not a land of opportunity because they got punished for minor things. For children it was not a land of opportunity because the amount of lashes they recived, and the amount of chores they did giving them little free time. It was not only children which made it not a land of opportunity, also

“Governor John Winthrop of Massachusetts is here discussing the wife of the governor of Connecticut, and his feeling that this woman has violated the roles rightly reserved for women by participating in “manly” activities. He believes her violation of “her place” has driven her into madness”, meaning the woman broke the rules of doing a many activity that she wasn 't supposed to do. This supports my claim that is was not a land of opportunity for women because, this means that during when woman were in colonies they mostly worked their whole lives, meaning that men were against women doing manly activities which she should of been doing when she broke the law, but the women should of been able to do manly activities not just teach kids or do child care. This quote “i’m obnoxious who disagree with women doing manly activities they should just sew, the disease a woman poet, a good poem from a women just means stolen or lucky”, means that men were against women poets because they thought if a woman wrote a poem it must of been lucky or stolen so they didn’t care about women and what poetry they wrote. This supports my claim because men were against any manly activities women did such as poetry, if women wrote poetry the men thought that it was just luck and or it could 've been stolen. For women , the colonies were not a land of opportunity because, men didn’t approve of women doing manly activities, leaving the women