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The Importance Of Life In The Thirteen Colonies

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Life in the colonies is not all that is made up to be. There are accurate articles but also unfortunately others that are completely off. The people in England do not get an accurate picture; they are thousands of miles away so their only source of information is the newspapers. The latter tend to be one sided furthermore the British people can not cross reference the information they receive and therefore they cannot tell if the articles are accurate.
This is an account of what life is truly like in the Colonies.
Education
Recently other newspaper had on their front page the headline “Shocking investigation - New England’s schools lack spelling, reading and Arithmetic” but that is inaccurate. New England’s schools are the best in all the Thirteen Colonies. Neither the Middle nor the Southern Colonies have public schools. In those two colonies you can either hire a tutor, go to Church School or parents teach their children at home. Older children often go to schools in far away cities, or even England to complete their education. The schools in New England make …show more content…

Compared to life on a farm, life in the cities is quite exciting. One out of twenty colonists live in a city. The heart of the cities is their waterfront where ships coming from the Motherland bring news and items such as paint, carpets, furniture and books. Not far from there you have the marketplace where fishermen sell their produce.
In the cities , like Philadelphia, there are tradesmen, carpenters, joiners, bricklayers, masons, plasterers, plumbers , blacksmiths, glaziers and tailors. There are as well shoemakers, butchers, bakers, brewers, glovers, tanners, fellmongers, wheelwrights millwrights, shipwrights, boatwright, ropemakers, sailmakers, blockmakers, turners and many other jobs that make up a

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