People
What was the name of the famous hero and silversmith from the American Revolution?
Who is Paul Revere?
True or False: Colonial people ate corn?
True
What is one plant or berry that colonial people used to dye their clothing?
What is a pokeberry?
What is the name of the first schools that boys and girls went to?
What is a dame school?
Were there many colonial doctors?
No
What are three foods that colonial people ate?
corn, beans, pumpkins
What flower was used to make purple dye?
What is an iris?
What did students write on?
What is a slate?
What was the name of the person who made shoes in colonial times?
What is a cobbler?
Did colonial people bring over fruits or vegetables from Europe to grow in the New World?
Yes!
Where did most people in the colonial period live, on farms or in towns?
What are farms?
What was the most important book in colonial schools?
What is the Bible?
Who worked with iron and made iron shoes for horses, pots and nails?
What is a blacksmith?
Did Colonial people hunt?
Yes
What did colonial people use to weave thread? (hint: we saw this at Heritage Hill)
What is a loom? (or a spinning wheel)
Did everyone in the colonial period go to school?
No
What is the name of a person who made pewter spoons, plates and mugs?
What is a pewterer?
When was the colonial period?
1607-1783
What is the name of the object that had the Our Father and the alphabet printed on it for students to study?
What is a hornbook?