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Life in the Colonies: Freedom, Economy, and Rights

This overview explores life in the American colonies, highlighting the political freedoms, agricultural practices, and the significance of slavery. It examines how settlers built their lives through farming, home schooling, and crafting. The text also discusses pivotal moments in civil rights led by figures like Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr., along with the economic systems shaped by Triangular Trade and supply and demand dynamics. Finally, it touches on governance, emphasizing John Locke's philosophy on natural rights and the restrictions on voting.

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Life in the Colonies: Freedom, Economy, and Rights

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  1. Life in the Colonies By: Jayme Brantsen

  2. Europeans came to America • Political freedoms • Free Land • Freedom of Religion

  3. What did people do for a living? • Farming • Home school • Made clothes, grew food, built their own homes

  4. Slavery • The practice of people owning other people and forcing them to work • It was important because then the slaves would do work for the rulers and it would help with agriculture

  5. Rosa Parks • Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to stand up to the orders of the bus driver, after the white seats had been occupied in the front • She got on the bus and sat in the white people seats • They told her to stand up but she wouldn’t • She then had gotten arrested • Then Martin Luther King Jr. worked and discussed about what had happen

  6. Economy • Triangular Trade • Supply and Demand • Changes in Agriculture

  7. Government • Only adult white males who owned property were allowed to vote because they thought that they were more wealthy and educated • They took place at the county court house or village common.

  8. John Locke • He was an English philosopher who believed that government was responsible for protecting people’s natural rights, also if a government does not protect the rights of the citizens, they would have the right to find a new ruler.

  9. Resources • Achievment.org • Social Studies Book • SocialStudiesforkids.com

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