Vocabulary
A person who migrates and settles in a foreign area as part of a colony.
What is a colonist?
A person who reads important government messages in the street.
True or False: All colonial children went to school until they were a teenager.
What is false?
True or False: Colonial children shadowed and helped out their mothers or fathers to learn chores.
What is corn?
The three regions that make up the 13 Colonies.
What are New England, Middle, and Southern Colonies?
A person who uses leather, thread, and a block to make their product.
What is a cobbler?
Name two characteristics to describe a schoolhouse.
At least two manners are expected to be followed by colonial children.
What is cleaning your face, hair, and hands before dinner? What is saying your prayers, talking when only spoken to, and no elbows on the table?
What are gold, god, and glory?
Also accepted: freedom to practice their religion and to gain land.
An area of land settled by a group of people outside of their country.
What is a colony?
A person who uses iron to make farming tools, horseshoes, and household tools.
What is a blacksmith?
The four subjects students learned in school.
What are math, reading, writing, and religion?
Three things colonial women had to complete daily.
What are washing dishes, making clothes, preparing food, caring for the animals, churning butter, and modeling candles?
Use one word to describe a colonist's trip, aboard a ship, to Colonial America.
What is ___________ because:
-Crowded and dark
-Had to wear the same clothes
-Food was dry and rationed
-Had animals around
A large, vast area of land that the Europeans settled on in the 1700s.
What are the 13 Colonies?
Name two reasons why men wore wigs in Colonial America.
What is for a fashion statement and to show their wealth or social status?
What are quill pens, ink, slate chalkboards, hornbooks, and the New England Primer?
Three things colonial men had to complete daily.
What is planting, harvesting, hunting, making family decisions, and building their homes?
A household item that was used to warm sheets on colonists' beds. Placing hot water into it would give off heat.
What is a warming pan?
A person who works with a professional to learn a trade.
What is an apprenticeship?
Name two items a copper would need in order to build his product.
What are pieces of wood, metal hoops, a hammer, a mallet, and an axe?
What is a hornbook?
What are cash crops?
The three types of houses that were most common in Colonial America. (300 points)
Choose one and describe it. (200 points)
What are saltbox houses, log cabins/brick houses, and plantation homes?
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