Social Life
This was a favorite local gathering place for colonial men.
What is a tavern?
Who was the College of William and Mary a school for?
What are boys?
This is a person who works at a job that requires manual or artistic skill.
What is a craftsman?
This is the name for the Church of England that the king was head of.
What is the Anglican Church?
This is about how many of all the people in Williamsburg that were enslaved Africans.
What is about half?
This is another service a tavern offered besides serving food and beverages.
What is rented rooms for travelers?
These are the subjects boys aged 12-15 years old would learn about at the College of William and Mary.
What are reading, writing and arithmetic?
This is a craft or an occupation that requires manual, artistic, or mechanical skill.
What is a trade?
The law required that all white colonists had to do these two things for the Anglican Church.
What is attend church and pay taxes to support the church.
These are 3 different roles a slave in Williamsburg had.
What is house slave, town slave or plantation slave.
This is one famous tavern in Williamsburg.
What is the Raleigh Tavern?
What are cooking, sewing and other skills taught by their mom's and sisters?
This is a craftsman who made objects such as cooking pots and plows out of iron and steel.
What is a blacksmith?
Once inside the church, people sat in different places, this is what their spot depended on.
What was their position in the community?
This is what juba is referring to.
What is leftover food, such as bread crusts, and the skin from cooked meat. Owners fed their house slaves such scraps?
These are 4 things men would do when visiting a tavern?
What are eat and drink, play games, host fancy dances and talk about politics and government?
This is what "Dame" means and this is who attended "Dame School".
What is "woman" or "lady" and who is some girls who were sent there by their parents to learn reading, writing, arithmetic, manners, prayers, knitting and sewing.
Three levels of craftsmen worked in trade shops. These levels are (from most experienced to least experienced) :
What is "mastercraftsman", "journeyman", and "apprentice"
This is a colony that is controlled directly by a king or queen, who usually appoints a royal governor] .
What is a royal colony?
This played an important role in slaves' regligious services.
What is music?
These are two famous, important men in our nation's history that visited to Raleigh Tavern to discuss politics.
Who are George Washington and Thomas Jefferson?
Boys and girls in the colonies learned strict rules about how to behave. This is what these rules in manners are called.
What is civility.
This was one of the most common crafts in Williamsburg.
What is shoemaking?
Lawmakers were members of Virginia's General Assembly. These are who the Assembly included.
Who are the royal governor, his council, and the House of Burgesses.
This is one way slaves survived their terrible conditions.
What is by relying on one another. They worked to create strong family ties. They looked after their family members?