How many colonies made up the original colonies and which one of the colonies do we now live in?
13, New Jersey
100
This worker raised animals and crops on a farm and this other worker mixed herbs to make medicines in colonial times just like a pharmacist or a drugstore does today.
What is a Farmer and an Apothecary?
100
Who received the most education in colonial days?
Boys (males)
100
Most men in Colonial America had this job.
What is a farmer?
100
When they first came to North America, the colonists needed the help of the Native Americans to survive so they and the Native Americans did this.
What is Traded?
200
A land ruled or control by another country and the people living there.
Colony and Colonists
200
In colonial times, these three people worked usually in fashion, making and selling clothes, hats and wigs.
What is a Tailor, Milliner and Wigmaker?
200
Name at least two books that school children learned from.
What is a Hornbook and the Bible?
200
What were homes like in colonial days? and how were they heated?Give 2 details.
Cold in the winter, often only one room. Fire, blankets, open doors....no air conditioning.
200
Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams and others men were very important in helping create the United States. That is why they are called?
The Founding Fathers
300
Who ruled the 13 colonies and which continent did they come from?
England (British) and they came from Europe.
300
They helped the townspeople hunt for food and fight wars and they protected people's money from being stolen by turning their money into silverware (coffee pots, candlesticks, cups, plates, spoons, jewelry, and more)
What is a Gunsmith and Silversmith?
300
What was a teacher called in colonial days? What were they like? and what happened if you got in trouble at school?
Schoolmaster. They were very strict and if you got in trouble, you wore a dunce cap, sat in the corner and wore a sign with a name telling what they had done.
300
What was used to sweeten food?
Maple syrup.
300
This document said that all men are created equal and have certain rights and it freed the colonists from England. But this other document became the new law for the United States and created its government.
What is the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution?
400
The years that England ruled the 13 colonies and on what date did the colonies get their freedom from England?
Colonial times 1607-1776 and on July 4, 1776, the colonies became a free country or states.
400
This person got the goods from England and sold it to the colonists for high price and besides making horseshoes and tools for other jobs, the Colonial Blacksmith also did this.
Merchant and the blacksmith was also a dentist, who pulled people's tooth out.
400
A horn book was made out of what?
Wood, animal horn (skin), piece of paper.
400
Which day was very special to the colonists and why?
Sunday was very important to the colonists. The colonists saw it as a day of the Lord. They were Christians and came to America to practiced their religion freely.
400
Name two expectations for children and their behavior in church or on a Sunday.
No talking or distractions in Church, attend 4 hours of church, No work of any kind, no smiling.
500
Name at least 8 of the 13 colonies besides New Jersey, New York and New Hampshire.
Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts
500
Name and explain three main colonial jobs that required people to work with both their hands and wood.
Cobbler - made, sold and repaired shoes. Wheelwright- made and repaired wheels for carts, carriages and wagons. Cooper-made different containers such as barrels, casks, and buckets to hold wine, flour, gunpowder, and tobacco.
500
Name and explain four ways school was different in colonial times compared to school today.
Attended 6 days, one room (small class) with fireplace, students were all different ages and grade levels, school books and punishment. Children walked to school and sat on wooden benches.
500
The people who supported and fought for independence from England and those were against it and supported the British.
What is the Patriots and the Loyalists?
500
After the French and Indian War, the British passed new laws for the colonies. Why did the British do that, why were the colonists so angry about it and how did they react to the laws?
The British wanted the colonists to help pay for the war and the colonists were angry because they didn't vote on it, they didn't anyone to speak for or represent them in the government. So the colonists started to protest against the new laws.