What was life like in the early American colonies?
Building from Scratch
What was life like in the early American colonies?
Picture stepping off a wooden ship, your legs still wobbly from weeks at sea, onto a shore where there are no shops, no roads, and no houses waiting for you. That was life in the early American colonies, four hundred years ago. People had to build a whole world from scratch — and they were figuring it out as they went.
The very first job was a roof over your head. Forget cozy cottages — the earliest colonists often dug pits into the earth or threw up rough wooden huts. Real houses came later, built from logs and clay, with a single big fireplace that did everything: heat, light, and cooking.
