Daily Living - Homes and Women's Roles

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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:


  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?
4/5/11

We learned that houses were different in different states.
Generally:
    • houses were modeled after English cottages
Southern Region
South Carolina:
  • 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
  • In New England glass windows were very rare
  • Wealthy colonist in New England began to
New Hampshire:
  • colonies houses were like Georgia houses except without flowers!


Massachusetts:
  • the houses were thatched.

Middle Region