Other everyday items were required leading to other household industries. Colonial work also included making furniture and also producing timber used to build houses. Other household industries included making alcohol such as beer, whiskey and rum. These household industries emerged as mills and distilleries were built and the alcohol and textile industries were developed. All of these provided more colonial work and jobs requiring even more labor in the colonies. Colonial America women helped with the planting and harvesting of the crops which added to the colonial work and jobs undertaken by the women who lived on the farms. (Notes) (Everyday Life in Early America by David Freeman …show more content…
Most attempted to enforce strict religious observance. One of the laws was that everyone had to attend to a house of worship and pay taxes that funded the salaries of ministers. Eight of the thirteen British colonies had established churches. Religion played a huge role for the colonist but soon changed. Religion changed when laws and rules changed. Punishment was either very harsh or put to death if one law was broken. They even banished people from the colony. Men tend to have more serious punishments than women when it came to breaking the law. “A general corruption hath overgrown the virtues of this latter times.” (Everyday Life in Early America by David Freeman Hawke, page 105) Crime was taken very serious; there was a case about a teenage boy that got killed because he stole animals. How they handled it was that they killed the animals in front of him first and then he was