History Questions 1700-1900s

What were the prevailing attitudes of English colonists toward women? Were women in the colonies better off than women in England? Why or why not?

Colonists had an aggressive attitude toward the woman that was brought over with them from England. The English colonists believed that woman are weak creatures that are not endowed with like strength and constancy of mind. The colonist think that the woman should only obey the requests of their husbands, do everything around the household to keep it maintained, and nature their children. Colonists even made sure that woman in most colonies could not attend public schools, vote, hold office, own property, bring lawsuits, preach, or make contracts.

Woman in the colonies were better off than woman in England. The better economic prospect in the colonies caused the woman to get married at younger ages. This cause woman to have more children and also keep the death rates lower than that of England. The colonies land and resources where much better than England’s. Also the land was new and there was more space so the people were more spread apart and that made them less susceptible to disease.

Which was more important in the coming of the American Revolution: the development of a set of intellectual assumptions in the American colonies regarding liberty, equality and sovereignty or changes in British imperial policy?

When the French and Indian War was over, the conclusion was that Britain had tremendous debts from the war that needed to be paid back. Until the time that the money was paid back the colonies were all external and were mostly imports and exports that were going to and from the colony. George Greenville was the Prime Minister and he was trying to pay off the debts on the taxes internally. The Stamp Act was a tax that was placed on any type of paper that could be printed on like letters or newspapers. The internal taxes were things that people bought every day. Normal kind of everyday type materials that people would buy daily.

External taxes were taxes that effected the colonist’s day to day items and were taxed to them. Parliament didn’t represent the colonists and they felt as though they were being taxed unfairly. They also believed that the British were allowed to certain principles and practices such as territorial expansion and religious freedoms that they were not. They felt as though those things were being threatened by the Royalty and that they were going to be taken away from them. The King was King George the 3rd. He had a Proclamation in 1763 that gave the colonists the right to claim land in the Appalachian Mts. The American Revolution was steamed from all of the above examples.