Which word describes the lifestyle that the first English settlers of America lived?

rushed

cultivated

harsh

constrained

The life style of the first English settlers of America was with no doubt: Harsh. It was a very difficult situation, fleeing England from Religious prosecution an arriving to an known land with nothing more than their clothes, the wood from the ships and some tools, arms and provisions to live. The had to prevail against all the odds in a strange and savage environment.