Tuesday, September 16, 2008

The 13 Colonies

After viewing a variety of videos about the colonies you have some knowledge about the development and lifestyle of those times.

What observations did you make?
Why did people go to the colonies?
What was life like starting a colony?
Describe the culture of that time.  Culture is: education, religion, economy, food, literature, recreation, traditions, music, clothing...

25 comments:

Anonymous said...

at first the life in america was hard but if you have brought people with you, you would get more land which would help to grow crops.

Anonymous said...

People went to the colonies because they wonted to believe in the religion.It was pretty hard to start there own colonies because they got a lot of disease.

Anonymous said...

I observed that the people worked very hard and made nothing and they didn't always have much.
They made places and they worked hard to make their Colonies great and they tried to be equal but, the king could out rule what ever they had wanted. It was hard you had to get permission from the king who owned the first colony if you wanted a new one if he said yes then u could and if he said no then you had to stay in his colony or just leave to another colony. They had different believes in god and what they wore and what they ate they are very different back then. Then they are today.

Anonymous said...

i observed the videos.
the people went to the colonies for the freedom they were offering.
the life was quite hard because moast of the time the colonies didnt work out.

Anonymous said...

I made n observation that there was only christianity and similar religions. there could have been a race variety and religion variety. That could have shown america believed in freedom for all but obviously they didn't and neither did rest of the world. I really disrespect that.

Anonymous said...

This sucks i hate this quite torchering me gosh school sucks

Anonymous said...

Jamestown one of the first colonies to buy blacks slaves. The first colonies were found the Spain. People make a living by selling tobacco. That is why slave came to the colonies.

Anonymous said...

What observations did you make? The americas were nice plain country places. so relaxing.

Why did people go to the colonies? To have freedom of religion, the other places were all communist places .

What was life like starting a colony? It wasn't so bad, they just build a house and planted crops. it was btter then in england, england sucks.

Describe the culture of that time. Dutch brought in slaves since the 17th century .

Anonymous said...

people went to america because they wanted to be free o live with thier on religion

Anonymous said...

they wanted to be free with thier own religon

Anonymous said...

They live different and they dress and act different than today. They worked hard for barley any pay. They tried to make their colonies good. They had to get permission from their king to make another colony and if the king says no then they had a choice to leave the colony and stay at the colony and just live it out until they died.

Anonymous said...

good

Anonymous said...

it took 23 days and the ship was crammed into something

Anonymous said...

the people had bought many slaves to harvest tobacco, rice, blue die, and cotton.
i learnd that the main reason people went to the colonies to get the stuff that they wont and the money that they make by living there

Anonymous said...

I made an observation of everybody wanting the free land.
They went their for the land.
It was harsh and cruel many people were punished or even killed.
The economy was very poor.

Anonymous said...

I think that it was CRAZYZZYZYZYZYZY
i think they went cause reloigious resons
like would be good

Anonymous said...

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Anonymous said...

People who went to ameraica got sick (depending on were they settled).

Anonymous said...

They came here for the freedom. It was hard because they had to do every thing by them selfs! They had to find their own food and make their own tools and things like that!

Anonymous said...

I think that the 13 colonies are cool
But everything is differant now
and i think that they mostly moved here for riligious resons

Anonymous said...

good

Anonymous said...

i agree with darren also they did get a lot of disease also there was some fungi in the bread

Anonymous said...

The people of england came here so that they could have any religion they want. They might of come so they could see what it was like living in another land. most of their houses were smaller but close to their houses in england.

Anonymous said...

the resin people whit to the new world is because they dint like Eagan. they must of had a hared live

Anonymous said...

at first the life in america was hard but if you have brought people with you, you would get more land which would help to grow crops.