Friday, September 12, 2008
Colony Blog
You are a European who wants to emmigate to the English Colonies. Which section and specific location do you plan to emmigrate to. Explain one reason why you are leaving your homeland and give a detailed explanation for why you chose your destination. Be sure to include information related to your occupation, ethnicity, gender, family, religion and social status, etc.
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I would like to move to the New England colony because it had the most freedom and such with everything. I am coming from Africa. I am a jeweler and i have a husband and 2 kids. We are the wealthiest but we get by and we are not poor at all. I am jamican descent. I believe that God created everything and then left the earth for man to fend for himself. I think coming to this new world will open many new doors for me and my family as well.
If I would move anywhere I think I would move the the middle colonies because they believe in tolerance of other religions and other people. You don't have to believe in a certain thing. To be specific...I would rather have lived there while william penn was alive. This was when women and men were treated equal, even though it was only in progress for a little bit.
To hannah montana:
I dissagree with your statement about it being more free in the New England region. I disagree with this because New England didn't give people the choice to go to church or to grammar schools. You were forced to be a part of the church and forced to attend grammar school. I personally don't think that is very free.
i would move to the new england colonies, where the middle class is the largest. i'm a shipbuilder with a wife and four kids, with the communities of forty families and land suited to family size, i believe it will be the best place to settle, according to my own social views and economic reasonability.
If I were to go anywhere, I would go to the New England colonies. Land was divided equally and there were a lot of jobs to do. My husband would own a naval store. I would be of the Protestant religion so the grammar schools and colleges teaching to be ministers would be of benifit to my seven children. They could get a good education, and being part of the church, would be able to partake in government.
To Brandon.Flowers:
I agree with you on New England having a large middle class. People of the New England Colonies made sure the rich supported the poor and gave them financial aid if they were making too much. This was a good idea because then the gap between the rich and poor wasn't so large.
I would move to the middle colonies for multiple reasons. One being that I didn't want to be judged for what religion that I was and what I believed in. Another one being I wanted a better life, from my poor life in England. I am a married, white, female who will help my husband with farming and taking care of the family. I was poor in England, but I hope to be middle class here in America.
As the wife of a poor Irish farmer and the mother of seven children, I would choose to settle on the western fringe of the Middle Colonies. We could grow our own crops, and of course there would be plenty of children to help out. In the Middle Colonies, people are more accepting of different cultures and more respectful of each other's differences. Also, it would be nice to live in a place where there is an opportunity to live free of a meddling government.
considering my own personality, i would have probably moved to the middle colonies, in search of my won religious and voting freedom. I picture myself as a single gentlemen with a specific trade, making it more important for me to go to the middle colonies, where men like me are appreciated and needed
I would emigrate to the middle colonies because they have a great tolerance of race and religion, and i would be free to believe anything that I wanted to. My life in the Middle Colonies would be much better than my dreary life in England because i wouldn't be persecuted for not being Catholic, and as a woman, I would have more rights.
i agree with candycane. people in the new england colonies had a strong church to lean back on, which also incorporated their government involvement and education.
As a rich upperclassman in England, I came to America, and paid many indentured servants' ways into America, because I wanted to make a profit on farming tobacco in the Southern Colonies. I am Paying the servants' ways into America because of the Headright system. I hope to make lots of money from farming cash crops in the South.
Due to my lack of faith, many in England have cast me aside as a heretic. Many job opperotunities have been withheld from me and I am personally ashamed of our country's system. When I saw that William Penn had founded a colony in which people are treated equally regardless of religion (or lack thereof), I jumped at the opperotunity and scrounged up all of the money I could to pay my passage to the Middle Colonies.
I would move to the middle colonies for several reasons. One, the tolerance in the middle colonies is very high when it comes to religions or other ethnicities. Also, the weather there would permit me to grow crops, yet not die at a ridiculously young age. Being a woman would affect me in that I wouldn't have that many opportunities. I wouldn't want to live in New England because of the strict policies regarding religion. In fact, I'd probably be banished from there after lunch sometime on the second day...
I would move to the Middle colonies because they are more acceptive of everyone. I am a Quaker and my family was tired of being shunned and chased after to be converted to the Anglican relgion in England. My family and i want relgious freedom and to finally be accepted for who we are. We also want to have some say in our government. The middle colonies are the perfect place for me and my family.
I would most definitely move to the Middle Colonies. I am a wife of three children. We are Presbyterians and want to be free in what we believe in. We are not rich, but on the other hand we are not poor. My husband will be able to get a good job of farming or maybe he can manufacture goods. My three children are ages 3, 5, and 7. They are all young, but I plan to teach them at home, because there aren't any schools. I am very excited to be able to move to the Middle Colonies where my family and I will be able to live for what we believe in.
I am leaving my homeland of England to go to the Middle Colonies because the relgion of my homeland is becoming corupt. It forgives sins by making people pay, and the church members are becomeing to caught up in the gold that is being brought over. I chose to go to the Middle Colonies because it has freedom. Everyone can believe in whom or what they like, it does not matter your ethinicity, and people accept it. Specifically i would move to Rhode Island, the colony that William Penn set up himself. The freedom i think is the strongest here. I am a whit English female. I have a husband who is a smithy, and two children. A girl and a boy, the boy is learning to become a smithy.
Hannah Montana you make no sense what-so-ever. Everything you said in your post completely contradicts itself. like i said you make NO SENSE... i just felt the need to reiterate that.
As for me i would want to go to the New England colonies because I am a middle class male that believes greatly in god and talks to him him daily. I think that me, my wife, and my 6 children could easily run a farm to eat as well as have our children educated and maybe if were lucky one might become a minister.
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I would like to live in the middle colonies because of the job opportunities and available land. I am swiss with a family that consist of a husband and two children. The middle colonies possess a wide range of nationalities and cultures, so they would be very accepting. We are a middle class family, and are Methodists.
Chill out, Johnny cash.
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I would move to the southern colonies because I would not want to follow the strict Puritan ruling of New England. I am leaving Europe so that I can get rich off growing tobacco in the south. I am the 2nd born son of a very wealthy gentleman, and I am a member of the Anglican church.
I would want to move to the New England Colonies because i would get land to farm on with my kids and husband. I am a middle-class teacher from England, and being Puritan, I would be able to worship freely. My husband and I could provide a better living for our children and ourselves.
I would like to live in the New England colonies since i am coming to the new world to be able to follow my religion. I am coming over with my middle class family and we will try to make a living by farming.
I am a married man with two children, and I am leaving England because of religious reasons (persecution). I would want to live in any of the Middle Colonies, as they are very tolerant of all religions. Since I was a farmer in England, the middle colonies would also bring the farming lifestyle to my family. I am white (so is my wife), so I should be able to vote in at least some of the lower elections. I also agree with renesemee, as grammar schools would not allow my children (aged 15 and 17) to help out on the farm.
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