Life In Colonial America

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Life in the colonies was not easy for a lot of people. Many people had to work long and hard all day to survive. I will show you what life was like from the point of view of different people in the colony. The native Americans were very excited when the colonists first landed. They got to meet and they soon became allies. But once the colonists started taking their land the Native Americans were not happy. They were losing a lot of land and they wanted it to stop. Many of them soon became slaves. They were no longer happy with the colonists. They started fighting back but lack of tecnology led to most of them dying. Another group of people in the colonies are the landowners. These people had many slaves and thought that they were better than everyone else. According to Encyclopedia.net “Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island were the three New England states with the largest slave population.” the new england …show more content…

One of these groups is the women. Women were very disrespected in the colonies. They couldn’t vote, own land, or work some jobs. Women were given the right to own land later on, but according to History.com “ the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution granted American women the right to vote in 1920” Women didn’t get the write to vote until after the colonies were all over. The women of a colony were forced to stay at home all day and work land, sew clothes, or do other daily jobs. When the women weren’t working they were usually taking care of their children. Families back then did not have to medicine that we have today and children got sick vry often. The final group of people is the slaves. The slaves were very mistreated in the colonies. They got no respect what so ever. They were forced to work jobs with no pay. They got to eat barely any food at all. And they had to work very hard or they would be punished. They were not happy at all in the

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