SETTLING NORTH AMERICA 1497 1732
FOUNDING OF THE NEW ENGLAND COLONIES
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They were small and simple. One family lived together in one room.
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They were large and made of bricks.
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They were small, but many families lived together in the same house.
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They were large mansions for only one family.
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Detailed explanation-1: -The houses built by the first English settlers in America were small single room homes. Many of these homes were “wattle and daub” homes. They had wooden frames which were filled in with sticks. The holes were then filled in with a sticky “daub” made from clay, mud, and grass.
Detailed explanation-2: -New England colonial homes usually had central chimneys with multiple flues so that fires could be lit in two or more rooms on each floor. These homes are often marked by a centrally located front door, evenly spaced double-hung windows and simple side-gabled roof.
Detailed explanation-3: -In New England, colonists departed from traditional European wattle and daub (woven lattice of wooden strips covered with a material made with some combination of wet soil, clay, sand, animal dung, and straw), constructing wood-frame homes covered with weatherboard, clapboard, or shingles.
Detailed explanation-4: -Structures in early New England were especially likely to be built of wood. Only eight New England houses are known to have been built out of brick and four out of stone prior to the eighteenth century.
Detailed explanation-5: -A very popular style in the United States, the colonial style originated in New England with high pitched, dormered roofs and two to three stories. There are one or two very large chimneys, narrow siding or brick facades, and an elaborate front entry with a portico supported by columns.