Daily Life in the Colonies & Division into North & South for Carolina

1. Daily Life in the Colonies & Division into North & South for Carolina Regional Differences Social Classes Develop Family Education Tuscarora War Carolina Divides

2. Regional Differences Remember Geographic Regions – each presents different opportunities Coastal Region: • Plantations - access to water ports, farmers get there produce to market easier, land flat better for large scale farming • Greater amount of slavery • Cash crops Piedmont & Mountains: • Small farms – land not as flat, Yeoman farmers and subsistence farming, lack of roads and water routes to coast • Harder to get products to market

3. Social Classes Develop Influenced by plantation system Upper Class: Few able to own plantation, most people were indentured servants, slaves, or yeoman farmers Plantations like little towns that produce all they need • Limits growth of commerce and urbanization (cities) Small Middle Class: because few cities, this is different then in Northern Colonies • Lack of cities means lack of jobs like artisans, lawyers, teachers • Low social mobility (ability to increase social class)

4. Family Differences influenced by class of family. • Southern families class influenced by size of farm • But some similarities • Fathers head of household • Trained sons when they were older • Responsible for finding suitable mate for daughters • Mothers responsible for caring for household • Lower class families produce more of what they needed • Sons and daughters shared in daily chores necessary for survival

5. Colonial Education Few could afford formal education Most stopped education after elementary years Availability varied between the colonies Northern Colonies: • More schools, New England Colonists valued ability to read Bible • Educate future ministers – continue religious values Southern & Middle Colonies: • Most children live far from towns, they had to be taught by parents or private tutors • No community schools because of distance between plantations

6. Tuscarora War The Carolina Colony’s growth starts taking up Native American’s lands • Tuscarora try going to PA but Quakers refuse them land • Back in Carolina Tuscarora prepare for war after killing John Lawson • John Lawson was one of first settlers of the Albemarle region of Carolinas • Carolina colonial government recruit assistance of Yamassee & Catawba Tribes to help defeat Tuscarora • These tribes become angry with colonists and launch their own attack • End result all these tribes eventually defeated - clearing more land for settlement and reduced fear of Indian attacks

7. Carolina Divides Carolina’s Growth not even – Albemarle Region vs. Southern Region • Albemarle Region: area from 36’ latitude to Virginia border • No good deep water port, coast dangerous to shipping • Southern Region: area around Charles Town • Area more economically successful • 1712 Lord Proprietors decide region to big for one assembly and governor to run • Split region into two • People had already been calling Albemarle region North Carolina • Lord Proprietors focus on Charles Town region • North Carolina residents gain greater sense of independence