Historians discuss major themes dealing vast variety materials events encounter studying history.Three themes Colonial Life Factors

Race, class and gender were highly important factors during colonial life in the country that would become the United States of America. In many ways, the very founding of this country was all about these three separate themes that became increasingly difficult to distinguish from one another once colonial life truly began in earnest. For instance, one can sufficiently argue that class was one of the primary reasons that colonists first came to America -- for the purposes of religious freedom (since religion can be considered a type of class) as well as for economic prosperity. Many colonists initially came to the country as indentured servants who were looking to find a better monetary existence for themselves.

This principle can be demonstrated most effectively by examining literature from and pertaining to Bacon's Rebellion. Essentially, this rebellion was...

At the heart of this rebellion, in which Bacon and a mob consisting of former indentured servants destroyed property in Virginia including substantial acres of plantation land, was the simple fact that these poor people wanted a means -- via their own land that was being inhabited (unfairly, so they thought) by Native Americans -- to earn a living and improve their lot (Bacon 1893). The historical significance of this rebellion, of course, is that due to this class struggle, the colonialists increasingly preferred slavery as their form of labor (Gisolfi 2004). This preference would greatly shape the nation to come.
Furthermore, class has played a highly substantial role in the history of and the foundation of this country. One need only look to the example set by Eliza Lucas Pinckney, who was one of the first women of note to operate a plantation and, in…