What I learn in Civics

  This week we are learning about the American colonies and all 13 of them. Mostly it is about what they did when they first came to the new land. Also what the difficulties they went threw with great Britain. We had to learn about which colonies were the Southern colonies, Middle colonies, and New England colonies. In 1585, Sir Walter Raleigh founded the first English colony at Roanoke in North America.

At fist it was a struggle for them to settle down because of the new land and natives that lived there. It was founded between 1607 and 1733. Each colonies had a certain farming plant they did. The southern colonies had tobacco they grew from Jamestown.
New England colonies were known for shipbuilding for Great Britain and farming crops. Anybody could have there own  property. Benjamin Franklin, in 1772, after examining the wretched hovels in Scotland surrounding the opulent mansions of the land owners, said that in New England "every man" is a property owner. Which is something I never knew before? I'm use to know a lot about history but I never knew that much about what happen at the begging of america.

 Did you know The colonization of North Carolina started in the 1650s. The province of Carolina was split into the North and South halves in 1712. This was also what I never knew how they became what they are now. Even tho they independent South Carolina continued to be ruled by the same Lords Proprietors who ruled North Carolina. I wish I could tell you more about what I learned but there is noting else to say. One of the things that started the revolutionary war was the many taxes the great Britain put on them witch made the man of the colonist angry and wanted to be independent from great Britain.