There were 2 life stages in the 16th and 17th century (took from google)
Answer:1. The main source of employment was agriculture.
Before and after the colonies, for the people in the States working in the fields was still the principal way of making a living.
2. People didn´t have a main role in politics.
Other think that didn´t change was the fact that the common people wasn´t involved in the desicion making process towards building the coutry.
3. People were still taxed by the government.
One of the things that the farmers fuoght for was the fact that they were being heavily taxed by the British empire, after the independance, to form a new country they needed money, and the only way a country can make money it´s taxing its people.
Down the great rivers that flow into the Baltic Sea. Then the sailors would portage (carry and drag) their ships between rivers, heading for southern flowing rivers, such as the Dneiper and Don,