Louis Vega
Social Studies
8th Grade
Chapter 3
: Section 1
Land and People
Isolation
Identity
Open mind/willing to experiment
Large families/diet/discipline
Rivers Shape Life
Virginia vs. New England
Trade at docks or seaports/few towns
Roads were expensive to build
Town Commons= plazas/community orientated
Puritan influence on education/public ed
Mass. First to have district
Southern Hospitality-due to isolation/family
orientated/private tutors
Women in America
London Co./better life
Practicle vs. romance
Respect workers/mothers/companions
Labor and Land
Great worth than in Europe
Most had land
Frontier=region vaguely defined and shifted
Squatter=couldn’t wait or get
Land and Right to Vote
Political equality not based on property
Qualification based on ownership vs. occupancy
Custom to vote/legacy/affected those that
didn’t
Privilege vs. right
Rural and Town Life
Boston pop. 7000
Self sufficient
Seaports: hub of society