In what ways did settlement patterns, family life, population growth, and so forth differ in New England and the Southern colonies in the seventeenth...

Many people
in the Southern colonies sought to make money and then go back to England where they could enjoy
their riches. At first many young men came without families, but families eventually came to the
Southern colonies. The richest families relied on chattel slavery for their labor needs and thus
did not need many children. Since it took a lot of land in order to make money with the cash
crops, one was often far away from one's neighbors. It was not uncommon for people to die at
young ages due to malaria and yellow fever outbreaks.

In New England,
families settled there in order to raise their children as both English in culture and Calvinist
in religion. Many families had several childrenthe average family had 5.5 live births per
household. These children combined with extended kin made up the labor force of the
self-sufficient farms. Since the church was the most important part of the community, people had
small landholdings and lived close to each other.

Women were more
likely...