Changes In The Colonies

Changes In The Colonies

A.P. History
                                                                                                                    10-15-98

By 1750, colonials in America were not as yet unique, but there were differences between European/British patterns of behavior as seen in the New England, Middle, and Chesapeake Bay colonies.

      During the mid seventeen hundreds, colonial America was rapidly changing.  

America was a new territory, and eager to break away from England.   Although many of

the colonies characteristics’ were similar to those of England, the colonies were

developing their own individual traits.   By 1750, the colonials in America were yet as

unique but there were differences between European/Britain patterns of behavior as seen

in New England, Middle, and Chesapeake Bay colonies.

      By 1750, the colonists in New England were starting to carry traits which were

known only by them.   Though the colonies were making a name for themselves in the

Americas, they still carried many traits similar to those of their mother country: England.

The farming techniques used by the Americans were extremely similar to those of

Britain.   Colonial family life was also more English than most colonists would have liked

to admit.   Despite these similarities, the New England colonies were quite different when

it came to topics such as land ownership and inheritance.   In the colonies men owned the

land that they worked on unlike in England, where they worked for the owner of the land.

Passing land ownership down to heirs was also different in the colonies.   For example, a

father is going to pass down all of his land to his eldest son. He does not have much land

and wants his son to have more property, so he adds on more land on to his claim.   This

land acquisition process compounds with generation.   Eventually the land holdings are

significantly larger than the starting ones.   While the New...