Colonial Life In F. Scott Fitzgerald's The London Chronicle

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The London Chronicle made a medium amount of inaccurate statements in their newspapers. Most of these statements dealt with colonial life in the colonies, such as Colonists ignoring self-government principles, and Colonial Cities, having a large amount of unemployment.

To begin, colonial families usually lived on small farms, and had large families, so they would be able to share, and get work done faster. They were also very self sufficient, having pigs, chickens, cows, bees to make honey, and many more parts of their farm. The newfound frontier was mostly far away from cities, largely depending on their need for self sufficiency . These facts from excerpts show that colonial life, and city life was a far distance away from being related.

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