How did the life of sharecroppers affect their children? children went to school because the farms were small, with little work, children had to work on the farm, so they rarely went to school children learned skilled professions as they worked around the farm. children left home when they became adults because the land wasn't theirs.

Complete the list of actions taken by the delegates of the first continental congress. a. the congress then opted to declare war against england. b. the congress then sent a representative to present its opinions to parliament. c. the congress then wrote the first draft of the declaration of independence. d. the congress then wrote a statement of complaints to george iii, not parliament, called the declaration of rights and grievances.