Vocabulary Terms
Wooden paddle with a sheet of paper attached with the alphabet and words from the Bible
What is a hornbook?
The man who led the Puritans to America from England
Who is John Winthrop?
True or False: Boys and girls both attended public schools.
What is False?
Most people did this for a living
What is farming?
Boys and girls learned to read and write using this book
What is the Bible?
Soldiers who protect the town
Who are the militia?
This person put an end to the Salem Witch Trials.
Who is the governor?
True or False: If you were the child of a rich merchant, you attended public schools like the rest of the Puritan children.
What is false?
Young men who lived with craftsmen to learn the skills were called this
Who are apprentices?
One form of punishment by the Puritans was this.
What is branding, being put in a pillory, or banished?
Men who made iron into horseshoes, ax heads, nails, and ladles
Who are blacksmiths?
This man founded Springfield, Massachusetts
Who is William Pynchon?
The type of school the people of the town pay for
What is public school?
True or false: Rich merchants lived in big homes with expensive furniture.
What is True?
2 goods that were traded up and down the Atlantic coast
What are furs, dried fish, lumber, food?
Men who made a living trading goods between the colonies and countries like Europe and Africa
Who were merchants?
What did the King of England do to the Massachusetts Bay Colony and Plymouth Colony?
What is make them into one colony?
Th first college in America
What is Harvard College?
2 items made by a blacksmith.
What are axe heads, horseshoes, ladles, and nails.
Harvard College is located in this city
What is Cambridge?
Being satisfied means you are this word.
What is content?
This Native American's head was hung on a stake in Plymouth for 25 years
Who is King Philip?
The first public school in Boston
What is the Latin School?
A place where millers grind grain into flour is called this.
What is a gristmill?
This is the place where the Puritans landed in 1630
What is Salem, Massachusetts