What was the life of a colonial child like?

Answer 1

The children where forced to work on the farms, carve wood, cook, and they had to read The Bible everyday. They would wake up eat breakfast, do chores, do school work, then eat lunch. After lunch they would start the same cycle over and over again. The children never had much free time and their lives were very harsh.

Answer 2

The people of the south lived on large farms, or plantations. Plantations are very different from the small New England farms. On the plantation stood the planter's home, a kitchen, a dairy, a smokehouse, shops for brick makers and carpenters, stables, barns, cabins, and often a school. The plantation was like a small village.. Some settlers could not afford to buy slaves or live near the coast. The area farther inland was much more dangerous. Life on the frontier was very different from life on the coast. The frontier was home to bears and other wild animals. Many settlers made a living by hunting and trapping the animals. Some made a living from the pine trees they used to build ships. Also, the settlers on the frontier banned together to build forts to protect themselves from the Indians. In times of peace the fort served as a trading post. In times of war the fort served as protection.Plantations were often separated by hundred of miles. Because people in the south lived so far apart, they were divided into counties, and they had county government. Each county had a courthouse where the rich planters would meet to decide on various matters. The plantations also had many workers who lived on the land.Some had indentured servants from England who promised to work the land for a certain number of years in exchange for money and a place to live on the plantation. Others had slaves who cost more, but would live and work on the plantation forever. The Southern Colonies had the largest slave population.( Sited from http://ed101.bu.edu/StudentDoc/Archives/ED101sp06/areuter/page3.html)

Answer 3

A child during that time period would have lived a very difficult life compared tolife, some children had to work in mines once trains were developed, the lucky ones just had to do several chore's, going to school was a privilege. And life was very, very difficult.

Answer 4

Hard, at a young age boys had to work, mainly as the same thing as their father. Girls had to start learning how to sow, clean, cook ect. at around the same age boys had to start working. Women did the housework and men did the real work, as did the children. Girls never went to school, witch was a school house, or a one roomed school house.

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Answer 5

A lot of work. Many only attended school for a short time, if at all. They would help with household work, play with friends. Older children would work at a job very early, and boys would be apprenticed to an older craftsman (carpenter, blacksmith, miller, cooper) to help them, and learn their trades. A VERY few boys would go to college to learn law, medicine, or the ministry. Girls usually married by their mid teens.

Answer 6

At the age of six you were supposed to act like an adult

Answer 7

i have no freakin idea do your homework kid

Answer 8

horrible and misreble