Zusammenfassung der Ressource
COLONIAL
SOCIETY
- CHARACTERISTICS
- 13 colonies suffered an
increased in
- Economy
- Population>Now 2.5 million
inhabitants
- DIVISION INTO SOCIAL
CLASSES
- Upper Classes:They could vote and
held high public office.Ex,Aristocrats.
- Lower Classes:could not vote or held high
public offices.Ex,manual workers,servants and
sailors.
- Indetured servants & Convicts:they could not
vote,they were not allowed to marry or to leave their
houses and travel without permission and also were
not allowed to buy or sell anything.
- Slaves:20% of population were slaves and had no rights.
- The structure of a Colonial Society was determinated by the social class of
each colony.
- Wealth determinated which class a person belonged to.
- Also the education,family,class,the power and the social standing of each
one.