Exported Materials as one of the Main Sources for Income

November 19, 2010

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Exported materials as one of the main sources for income

Typical colonial was a homestead farmer who lived well with his family in large part upon the produce of his own land.

Most colonies had a few large families who owned a majority of the land in that particular colony like the Schuylers, the Livingstons and the Johnsons of New York, The Carrolls of Maryland, the Lees and Carters of Virginia, the Manigaults and Middletons of South Carolina and many others.

The colonists started to call themselves Americans, which gave them a sense of unity.

Many Americans were literate even in the south where there was not as much focus on literature like in the north

Colleges started to sprout up like Yale, Harvard, Rutgers, Dartmouth, and many others

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Grain and flour from middle colonies and rice and tobacco from the southern colonies and limber and shipbuilding materials came from the New England colonies

Southern colonies had negro slaves who worked on the many large plantations like that of Georgia, The Carolinas, and Virginia.

In some areas of certain colonies there sprung up a new thing called city life, which popularized places such as Philly, Boston, New York, Charlston, and Newport.

There was a major mixture of cultures in the colonies, which ranged from Africans to Brits to people from the British Isles.

The colonists didn't have a main religion and were mostly free to practice whichever religion suited them.

There was a big contrast in the topography and nature life in the Northern colonies and the Southern colonies.

There was many conflicts between different groups of people in the colonies often two opposite sides with one superior to the other