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Life in the Colonies

Life in the Colonies. Family life Education Journalism and the Arts & Sciences. Family Life. Heavy demands on family Parents made decisions on who children would marry. Women: Most Important Role. Took care of cows, hogs, chicken Made clothes and butter Had children (10-11 was common)

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Life in the Colonies

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  1. Life in the Colonies Family life Education Journalism and the Arts & Sciences

  2. Family Life • Heavy demands on family • Parents made decisions on who children would marry

  3. Women: Most Important Role • Took care of cows, hogs, chicken • Made clothes and butter • Had children (10-11 was common) • Took care of house

  4. Role of Family • Family provided love, advice, food, shelter, clothing, education, and entertainment • Family depended on agriculture • Mid 1700s: 90% of society involved in agriculture

  5. Education • Girls had little formal education • Many believed that only boys should attend school • Not many boys went to college • In England only the elite went to school

  6. Education • New England colonies were the first to start placing an emphasis on schooling. • They wanted to make good Christians • BIBLE!

  7. Education • 9 colleges founded in the colonial period • Harvard – 1636 • William and Mary – 1693 • Rutgers (8th) – 1766

  8. Journalism / Arts & Sciences • 1704 – First successful newspaper appeared • 1733 – John Peter Zenger criticized the governor of New York • Arrested for libel • Wins in Court • Leads to Freedom of the Press

  9. Journalism / Arts & Sciences • Art • Not so good in colonies yet • Slow to catch on

  10. Journalism / Arts & Sciences • Benjamin Franklin • Inventor • Bifocal glasses, lightning rod • Scientist, politician, writer • Philadelphia

  11. Poor Richard’s Almanac • Speak little, do much. • When the wine enters, out goes the truth. • A plowman on his legs is higher than a gentleman on his knees. • God heals, and the doctor takes the fees. • Beware of little expenses; a small leak will sink a great ship. • Dally not with other folk’s women or money. • Wealth and content are not always bedfellows. • Fish and visitors stink in three days. • Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it is. • Don’t value a man for the quality he is of, but for the qualities he possesses. • Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards. • No man e’er was glorious, who was not laborious. • Children and princes often will quarrel for trifles.

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