Vocabulary
What Happened Here?
True/False
Education and Religion
Slavery
100

The capital of the colony of Virginia, was the center of government, education, and culture in colonial Virginia.

What is Williamsburg?

100
Proposed laws for the colony of Virginia were approved or rejected here.
What is the Governor's Palace?
100

True or False? Very few African Americans lived in Williamsburg.

What is False? (About half of the people in Williamsburg were African Americans).

100

Boys of these ages went to school.

What is 12 to 16 years old?

100

Slaves often live in small cabins with beds made of this.

What is straw?

200
The part of a country that makes rules and laws, and it has the power to see that they are obeyed. It was headed by the royal governor and the Assembly in colonial Williamsburg.
What is the government?
200

At sites like this one, apprentices worked and learned a trade.

What is shoemaker's shop, or a trade shop?

200
True or False? Williamsburg was the center of government, education, and culture in colonial Virginia.
What is True?
200
Education for BOTH boys and girls included strict lessons in this.
What is civility (manners).
200

Slaves often hid these in their cabins.

What are tools and instruments?

300

People's beliefs and ways of life.

What is culture?

300
Here, boys learned to read, write, and do arithmetic.
What is the College of William and Mary?
300
True or False? Virginians came to Williamsburg to shop, attend church, and visit government offices.
What is True?
300

In the countryside, families with enough money might send their boys to study with this person.

What is a local minister or priest ?

300

Enslaved African Americans sang this type of song to express themselves.

What is a call-and-response song?

400
Where did girls get their training in colonial Williamsburg?
What is dame schools?
400
Colonists went to this site to relax and enjoy themselves.
What is Raleigh Tavern?
400
True or False? Jamestown was the capital of colonial Virginia.
What is False?
400

This was the official church in Williamsburg, Virginia.

What is the Anglican Church?

400

Enslaved African worked this many days a week if they worked in the plantation owner's fields.

What is six days a week?

500

Spell the main government BUILDING, where lawmakers meet.

What is CAPITOL?

500
Here, people could often be found singing call-and-response songs.
What is the slave quarters?
500
True or False? Any citizen of Virginia could be elected to the Assembly.
What is False?
500
Virginians had to pay these to support the Anglican Church.
What are taxes?
500

Enslaved African Americans worked from sun-up to_________.

What is sun-down?

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