Vocabulary
What Happened Here?
Williamsburg
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

By 1700, this was roughly the size of the population in Colonial Williamsburg.

What is 2,000?

100

Boys of these ages went to school.

What is 12 to 15 years old?

100

Slaves often lived in huts with beds made of this.

What is straw?

200

A craft of occupation that requires manual, artistic, or mechanical skill.

What is a trade?

200
At sites like this one, apprentices worked and learned a trade.
What is shoemaker's shop?
200

This was how many years Williamsburg remained the capital of Virginia for. 

What is 100?

200

Education for BOTH boys and girls included strict lessons in this.

What is civility? (manners)

200

These are two types of items you might find inside the quarters of an enslaved person on a tobacco plantation aside from a bed. 

What are tools used for work (hoes, rakes, shovels) and musical instruments (drums and fiddles)?

300

A colony that is controlled directly by a king or queen, who usually appoints a royal governor.

What is a royal colony?

300
Here, boys learned to read, write, and do arithmetic.
What is the College of William and Mary?
300

These were three of the reasons that Virginians would come to the capital of Virginia. 

What is "to shop, attend church, and take care of business"?

300
Instead of going to the College of William and Mary, some families might hire a tutor, or boys could be sent to study with this local person.
What is a priest or minister?
300
Enslaved African Americans worked this many days if they worked in the plantation owner's home.
What is 7 days a week?
400

This is where girls went to get their training in Colonial Williamsburg.

What are dame schools?

400
Colonists went to this site to relax and enjoy themselves.
What is Raleigh Tavern?
400

If you lived in Colonial Williamsburg and wanted to become the royal governor, this is the only way in which that could happen. 

What is "You could get appointed by the British king"?

400

This was the official religion and 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

This period began in the 1730s and changed the way that colonists practiced religion, resulting in Christianity becoming more varied and accessible to everyone. 

What is the Great Awakening?

500

This is where about half the population of Williamsburg would have lived and worked outside of town. 

What are the slave quarters?

500

If you were invited to a ball at Raleigh Tavern, you'd be ushered to this room when you arrived. 

What is the Apollo Room?

500

The church in Williamsburg relied on these (which were required by law) from the colonists in order to pay their bills.  

What are taxes?

500

A type of song that was commonly sung among enslaved people in which a leader would sing a line that others would repeat.

What is a call-and-response song? 

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