Seven Year's War

Seven Year's War

Seven Years’ War

Many eighteenth-century Americas spent their time raising families and crops, making agricultural popular in the south and industry prominent in the north. Within these early eighteenth-century colonies where I live there is much diversity with the immigrant peoples living here, different cultural backgrounds and origin differences. Gradually, these diversities began to separate the people living in eighteenth-century America into three geographical areas. We became New England, the mid-Atlantic region and the South. Each region lives economically, religiously, politically and culturally different from one another and their lives are greatly impacted by the agricultural opportunities in each area. Within these three different regions people build homes differently, grow different crops, worshipped in vastly different churches, and hold different values. These differences mean that there is no longer one American colonial society but three regional social orders.
New England colonies have the English Puritans social order. The New England colonies are members of a radical Protestant division in which they believe that they are the only ones that are going to be allowed into Heaven. They follow the teachings of John Calvin and we know them as Calvinist. They came to America in search of freedom from religious persecution. New England is the most culturally and religious consistent of the three different regions, but also the poorest because of the climate being colder and not be able to produce much crop. The Puritans are a self-governing community and the political leadership grants large areas of land to groups of male settlers. The higher the social status, the more land they would receive. Every man in the community has a voice in the town meetings. The town meetings help the New England colonies build roads, levy taxes and elect officials to manage town affairs. Men have complete control over land and property and their wives....

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