Daily+Living+-+Homes+and+Women's+Roles

**Task:**

**Design a model of colonial home representing one of the regions you studied.** **Explain why it works given the natural resources, climate, and the daily lives of women in the family.**

**Explain how homes in other regions differed and the reason for the differences.**

3/28/11 Questions We Have:

4/5/11
 * 1) Why did they have to do all the work?
 * 2) Did men do anything around the house?
 * 3) Were the houses neat and organized?
 * 4) How big were the homes?
 * 5) Did the children help with the chores?
 * 6) Were the houses sturdy?
 * 7) Were the houses warm?
 * 8) Did some women go off to war with men?
 * 9) What were the woman's chores?

We learned that houses were different in different states. Generally: __Southern Region__ South Carolina:
 * houses were modeled after English cottages
 * houses were very fancy and upscale, the picture of the houses in the book __The South Carolina Colony__ it was like a modern day house.
 * women usually remarried after the death of a spouse. Marriage often left women with little control over their lives. Unmarried women were free to own property and operate a business in their own name.
 * Some common types of business owned by women are shops inns and taverns but some also owned nontraditional business.

Georgia:
 * Their houses were like log cabins with flowers growing on the house.
 * Houses had railings on top.
 * Woman's chores

__Northern Region__ New Hampshire:
 * In New England glass windows were very rare
 * Wealthy colonist in New England began to
 * colonies houses were like Georgia houses except without flowers!

Massachusetts:
 * the houses were thatched.

__Middle Region__