• 1. HOW DID PATTERNS OF FAMILY LIFE AND ATTITUDES’ TOWARD WOMEN DIFFER IN THE NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN COLONIES? In the southern colonies, women were greatly degraded; men were superior. Women were not able to work in the fields, etc., all of what they could do was to be a wife and maintain the home. However, meanwhile in the northern colonies, women did help around the house but they also had the privilege to participate in the trading industry. • 2. HOW DID THE LIVES OF AFRICAN SLAVES CHANGE OVER THE COURSE OF THE FIRST CENTURY OF SLAVERY? Slave trade became very popular therefore slaves were being imported on a daily; they were tightly packed onto ships and sent off. A big percentage of those slaves on the ships did not make it to the designated destination alive. Slave Trade was very common in South Carolina and slave owners depended highly on slave imports because slaved would die off quicker than expected. However in the Chesapeake, slaves reproduced therefore they (owners) were not as dependent on slave trade as to those in South Carolina. Although slavery was happening in most colonies, in some places blacks weren’t treated too different from whites, so they were treated as indentured servants. This act was immediately stopped and there came the known “slave codes” which “established” what a black person was defined as. …show more content…
WHO EMIGRATED TO NORTH AMERICA IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY, AND WHY DID THEY COME? The French, Germans, Irish, Scandinavian’s, Scottish, Swiss, and Welsh emigrated to North America during the seventeenth century. I believed most of these groups emigrated due to religious point of views; for example the Scottish and the Irish which were Presbyterians were fleeing religious