The british colonial experienc

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…farmed. Labor was often paid in the North, while servants and slaves were used in the south. Church life was very important to many colonists, and their daily lives reflected this value. Wealthy Englishmen could not control the colonists like they could at home. Many new ideas about politics and economics were attempted in the early colonies. Most of them failed, but the successes and the failures shaped the following events leading to recent history.