L4 English Colonial Identity And British Gov.

Question 1

Traditional English society

Answer 1

Importance of land

loss of farmland

migration to the cities

Question 2

Importance of land

Answer 2

Lived on island land was premium hard to get.

farmland or paying others to farm was the only acceptable way to make money.

Everyone else was look down on or not talk to.

Families only married other families who farmed

Question 3

Loss of farmland

Answer 3

Rich is buying all farmland getting harder for average person to have land.

Almost impossible firstborn son gets everything can’t split land under law

tobacco was the biggest reason to go

Question 4

Migration to the cities

Answer 4

Recovering from Black death farmland bought up and only given to firstborn

want to be sent to the New World 1500 to 1600s desperate for work women Dowery to marry

teaming village of farming labors beg borrow and steal to get to America’s

Question 5

Getting to the colonies

Answer 5

Pay
company
indentured servitude

Question 6

Pay

Answer 6

Extensive pooled money,

Chain migration sent first born or fourth or fifth son to establish them family followed

trip was 6 to 8 weeks

pay for by self

Question 7

Company

Answer 7

Could work for a company, build houses, chop lumber

only pick people with skills

would build whole towns

Question 8

Indentured servitude

Answer 8

Slave with a time limit seven years

on average 25% of everyone was a servitude one and four

Problem: they would run away at first easy to catch then people would start to help because they remembered the experience themselves marriage should make it easier to hide and not have to come back this is why slavery spread to North America

Question 9

Colonial life how much English changed and why?

Answer 9

Little infrastructure ( no military)

high degree of danger (no infrastructure)

other colonies (war at home = war in colonies)

Indian attack (claim land no permission )

little oversight ( little government)
relatively low taxes