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Daily Life in Colonial America
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Life in Colonial America was difficult and often short but the colonists made the best of their situation in the hopes of making a better life for themselves and their families. The early English colonists who established Jamestown, Plymouth, and Massachusetts Bay Colony, used to purchasing what they needed, found they were now required to either import items from the mother country, make them, or do without. Even later arrivals, unless of the upper class, found the New World challenging as most people had to work hard just to survive.
Middle and Southern English Colonies
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The establishment of the Middle and Southern English Colonies of North America was encouraged by the earlier English settlements of Jamestown Colony of Virginia in the south (founded 1607) and Plymouth Colony and, especially, Massachusetts Bay Colony in the north (founded 1620 and 1630 respectively). These early colonies not only inspired more English to cross the Atlantic to start a new life in North America but, in the Middle Colonies especially, those of other nations.
The colonies of New England grew primarily from the Massachusetts Bay Colony following Plymouth’s success. Rhode Island, Connecticut, and New Hampshire were all developed by religious dissenters from Massachusetts Bay. The regions which would become the Middle Colonies were largely controlled by the Dutch until 1664 while the lands of the future Southern Colonies were inhabited by Native Americans who were displaced as Virginia’s tobac
Our way of life requires the 1st Amendment (especially today)
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We in the USA live between two loud arguments. On the one side are those on the Left who think anyone with a reliigious faith or wants to use a religious faith ought to be banned from the public square, and on the other side those on the Right who think the USA is a Christian Nation and they want to take America back for God.
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