HI410 Lecture 2: History-Colonial-Test-Study-Guide
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England and the colonial children" has them both thriving. Stereotypical jobs the men hunted and built, the women cooked and cleaned, and the children learned to pick up a trade. Teenagers in the families also had a lot of responsibilities. There were many early marriages, and there were also some love marriages. A law was passed requiring every town of 50 families to maintain a school to teach boys reading, writing, and arithmetic. Every town of 100 families or more was to have a grammar school". Harvard college was also created during this time. The new england colonies emphasized on the bible (remember, the. England"s main vocations were clergy, lawyers, judges, and scribes. The middles colonies had a lot of home schooling while the southern colonies had a lot private tutors and studying abroad to europe. The english weren"t the only ones to immigrate to the america"s. There were a lot of reasons people came.