Chapter 2 question 3

3. At first when the colonies were created the whole concept was to create a smaller version of the parent country, and England considered the colonies as a source of raw material for trade. When the colonist came to the New World they brought with them the British culture. The British society was very sturctured with distint social classes. In the beginning of the of the Jamestown settlement there were not that many different classes but later Jamestown developes a wide range of social types such as laborores, farmers, artisan, merchants and gentleman. Even though the american colonies had the social system had a social system of the british but the colonist adopted new practices to be able to survive. The colonist adopted the sugar plantation system from the dutch and started using slaves. Many of the colonists had no experience in farming and the gentleman from england thought farming was below them but learned how farm in order to survive. Native Americans were considered uncivilized so communicating with native americans was wrong according to the british society but colonies such as Pennslyvania and Quebec maintained harmony with the natives to survive.