This paper will discuss the idea of law that was enforced in practice opposed to the idea of a sheriff. The first idea would be to discuss the makeup of these regions.
The makeup of the colonial backcountry is very different in comparison to the colonial settlements. There is a set of checks and balances that are able to be setup in a coastal settlement. For example, they have the ability to have a militia; this is probably the most important difference between these two. This was an essential point because it made it harder for their towns to attack. Take this excerpt from when Mary Jemison's family was captured, and this shows the need for a militia. Mary said , "They first secured my father, and then rushed into the house, and without the least resistance made prisoners of my mother, " Mary's family was situated out in the backcountry and a group of ten people came to plunder their house and capture them. Now, in a coastal settlement they would have been able to see the attack coming and might have been able to defend themselves. Mary Jamison's family was victim to not being able to defend themselves. Now, let's contrast that with a coastal town such as Charleston, South Carolina they have the luxury of having a border with the ocean, so they have a way to retreat if necessary. The backcountry is full of open wilderness there is no where to go. These people are separated where a nearest neighbor for some of these settlers could have been twenty miles or more.
The coastal settlements were able to engage in trade with foreign nations easier than people in the backcountry. In our class lecture our class talked about how people in the backcountry had to make their things that they used such as their clothes, soap, food, and they were self sufficient. Settlers were able to import more goods as time progressed, and probably one of the best examples of this would be a passage from Benjamin Franklin about his wife. "For instance, my breakfast was for a long time bread and milk (no tea), and I ate it out of a two-penny earthen porringer, with a pewter spoon. But mark how luxury will enter families, and make a progress, in spite of principle; being called one morning to breakfast, I found it in a china bowl, with a spoon of silver.
...y because the colonists had spread out in the region in order to protect their property. As a result of Bacon's Rebellion, the plantation owners were concerned about the relationship between the black slaves and the white indentured servantsboth groups were oppressed and poor. In the South, those who were poor had almost no hope of "climbing the ladder" in the community because social class was important in the coloniesthis kept the poor settlers separate from the rich and successful settlers.
The New England, Middle and Southern colonies were all English ruled, but yet very different. Among their distinctions, was the geography which played an important role in shaping these colonies. New England attracted Puritan farmers who wanted to separate from the Catholic Church. But because of the bone dry soil in the North, these colonists found they couldn't continue with their traditional ways of farming. However, with the immense amounts of water that surrounded them, they found that they could fish and trade. The Middle colonies on the other, hand had a moderate amount of everything. The fertile soil and the major seaports such as Philadelphia and New York, allowed these Middle colonists to make a living any way they saw fit. This led to the brisk development of the Middle Seaboard . Unlike the Middle and Northern colonies, the Southern colonies had large amounts of fertile land allowing for the development of large plantations. Because farming the plantations was the economic thrust for the South, towns and cities developed slowly. Thusly Geography greatly affected the lifestyles of these regions in the New World.
During the 1700's, people in the American colonies lived in very distinctive societies. While some colonists led hard lives, others were healthy and prosperous. The two groups who showed these differences were the colonists of the New England and Chesapeake Bay areas. The differentiating characteristics among the Chesapeake and New England colonies developed due to economy, religion, and motives for colonial expansion. The colonists of the New England area possessed a very happy and healthy life. This high way of living was due in part to better farming, a healthier environment, and a high rate of production because of more factories. The colonists of the Chesapeake Bay region, on the other hand, led harder lives compared to that of the colonists of New England. The Chesapeake Bay had an unhealthy environment, bad eating diets, and intolerable labor.
Resources the colonist needed such as food and clothing was not the easiest thing to get back then. Food was difficult because some of the soil was no good for growing crops, and even though there were many animals, the colonist did not have very many weapons with them and could not kill the animals to get their meat and hide. Also, there were many swamps which was very inconvenient because swamps don’t have the greatest soil and they don’t have sturdy land to build houses and villages. In Doc B it mentioned that there was also a good amount of loam, marl, clay, and castile soap which may have made it difficult to settle in Charles Town. This is another reason why it was hard to settle in Charles
The Asian-Americans settlement patterns were shaped by many decades of economic and social development in the United States. Since the Asian-American group is so large, it is often discussed in different ethnic subgroups. These various ethnic groups have many faced different struggles upon settling in America. Some of these struggles include significant racial discrimination in the workplace, low wages, and harassment, and violence. Despite the differences, most of these immigrants were drawn to America for better career and educational opportunities. Nevertheless, these immigrants have made numerous sacrifices, such as leaving their homeland in order to provide the best support for themselves and their family. The differences in settlement patterns over time can be seen through the ethnic groups: Chinese Americans, Filipino Americans, and Japanese
In the 17th century, America as we know it today was colonized by the English. The colonies in the North came during what was known as "The Great Migration," (from 1620-1640) which brought over Puritans to colonize New England. In 1607, King James chartered a ship to America in order to colonize the South, (Virginia). In this essay I 'm going to compare and contrast the colonial settlements in the North and South. The North and South are similar in their way of treating Native Americans and the way they used the land for natural resources. The differences being religion, system of land, economy, and slavery. Although both colonial settlers in the North and South immigrated to the New World in search of a new start, both settlements ended up
The individuals within our society have allowed we the people to assess and measure the level of focus and implementation of our justice system to remedy the modern day crime which conflict with the very existence of our social order. Enlightening us to the devices that will further, establish the order of our society, resides in our ability to observe the Individual’s rights for public order.
many achievements to the settlers lives. They built homes, shops and had a temple for
Chesapeake colonies of Virginia and Maryland were settled in the early 17th century. It was a difficult live for the first colonist; they had limited labor and were constantly raided by Native Americans. Colonist tried to use the Native Americans as a source of slavery. Most of the colonist’s farms were by forest areas so Native Americans would just leave in to the woods. Colonists were afraid of pressuring them from the fear of getting ambushed by gangs of Native Americans. Another reason Native Americans men made bad slaves was because the women in the tribes did the agricultural work in the Native American villages.
...ere more concerned about the commonwealth of the people due to their strong sense of community. Chesapeake government placed a harsh rule to ensure the survival of the settlers like the colony of Jamestown. New England had a diverse product due to poor soil and cold weather. They engaged in small scale agriculture, fishing, trading and shipbuilding. The Chesapeake regions had a warmer climate therefore it was more suitable to farm. The economic products that the Chesapeake region produced were tobacco and rice. The New England colonies were more of a community than the Chesapeake colonies. One of the reasons was that the settlers New England emigrated as a family and the Chesapeake emigrants were mostly males with the ambition to find gold and to own a large plantation; this resulted in mostly male population without female to enforce a sense of a real community.
First and foremost, New England had a varied structure of labor workers than that of the Chesapeake colonists. New Englanders had a steady supply of whole families being transported looking for freedom and land while the Chesapeake system of labor included a powerful man controlling indentured servants as labor. “New England farmers had to rely on their own families for the labor to build their especially demanding farms...In the richer Chesapeake, where an
The Chesapeake and New England attracted different types of settlers and, by 1700, the populations differed enormously.
Women, on the other hand, were seen to be working indoors, usually doing chores, raising their children, weaving and more. Men were seen to be the money makers while women were seen to be taking care of the family. Both genders had to cooperate in order to succeed in the struggle for existence. Colonists as a whole lived quite quietly in the dark with not much light but the moon, candles, and oil lamps. Families depended on others too, and cooperated by building schools, and raising funds to hire teachers with the payment of food and lodging for the futures of their very own children. The population also bonded by going to church, having the same religious beliefs. They also fairly relied on each other through a barter economy which was based off of trade. Had this population not cooperate, they wouldn’t have been as successful. Each group (ex: colonists) had to fight for their rights, with many hardships, against the loyalists who also had to cooperate as one. Even though the Loyalists had a similar experience, except for their better governing positions, wealth, and land (because they were loyal to the British crown). All in all, everyone endured some sort of struggle/hardship, whether it be raising a family, suffering through a power struggle between two classes, or just
As the American landscape began to broaden its horizons, its administration of justice had to expand to accommodate new situations and environments. In the early nineteenth century, due to lack of law enforcement, the frontier presented itself as heavenly to outlaws and bandits (Schmalleger 139). Many citizens took up the task of protecting others in a form of vigi...
Law, ?a governmental social control? (Black 2), is a quantitative variable that changes in time and space and can be defined by style: penal, compensatory, therapeutic or conciliatory (Black 5). The brief description of law and its interrelation with social control and deviant behavior can be encapsulated in the following scheme. This concept of law put into the context of social life gives a framework of the behavior of law.