Colonial Perspectives
Describe colonial life in America from the perspectives of at least three different groups of people (e.g., wealthy landowners, farmers, merchants, indentured servants, laborers and the poor, women, enslaved people, free Africans, and American Indians).
- Create a 3 panel brochure to answer the questions below.
- Below is an example of how each column should be set up
- Persons name
- Which class were they a part of?
- What was life like for them in Colonial America?
- Description who they were
- Picture with caption
- Use the following website to gather information http://www.history.org/Almanack/people/index.cfm
- Use the following for the class question http://www.history.org/Almanack/life/classes.cfm
- Francis Fauquier
- Gentry
- The gentry were the "upper crust" of colonial society. They were large landowners, very wealthy merchants, and financiers. They owned huge tracts of land and usually many slaves.
- Lieutenant governor of Virginia for 10 years, Steady leadership during political crisis, Cultivates intellectual acquaintances, Provides for slaves in his will
- Picture