Title: America in the 17th Century - HubPages
Headings: America in the 17th Century
America in the 17th Century
America in the 17th Century
AMERICANS
English Colonies in America
American Indians
Colonists in America
Colonists & Indians
VIRGINIA
New York
PILGRIMS
PURITANS
Meeting House
Salem Witch Trials
Rhode Island
CONNECTICUT
Maryland, Delaware, & New Jersey
The Carolinas
PENNSYLVANIA
IROQUOIS
America in the 17th Century
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Content: By 1690, the English outnumbered the Indians east of the Appalachians. The English colonists did not come to America to convert, enslave, or kill the Indians. pinterest-pin-it
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COLONIAL LIFE IN AMERICA
Colonists in America
In the 1630s, 80,000 people from England came to America. They were mostly poor people hoping for a better life, with the freedom to live as their faith dictated. Colonists came to America to escape the high cost of food in England, which had increased 400 percent in 100 years, and to escape the cities of England, which were sinkholes of filth, crime, and disease. The England they left behind was full of dishonest shopkeepers, crooked gamblers, gangs of violent vagrants, pickpockets, drunkards, and whorehouses. 20 percent of English brides were pregnant walking down the aisle. 28 percent of the children born were bastards. These colonists suffered treacherous voyages across the stormy Atlantic Ocean, only to risk early death in America. There was no safety net or social services in those days.