HIS271Y1 Lecture : Life in the Colonies
Document Summary
For the most part, english men/women who t ried to maintain ties with mother country, but still managed to create very different societies. recreating the old world was nearly impossible in the americas because of different circumstances. In the chesapeake, for example, native american clashes as well as the swamps hindered their ability to create transplant societies. part nature and part nurture (some was the circumstances they encountered and some was their methods in negotiating a space in the new environment) when these isolated communities increasingly became more complex, they began to share more similarities. Focus: new england and the chesapeake and how early diversity began to give way to more widespread cultural similarities. holy mission, covenant, conversion experience were essential to the new england. she felt that the church was putting more emphasis on works of good than faith alone. one of the first but not the last challenge to this society.
