Colonial Life
Category 2: Important People
Category 3: Daily Life in the Colonies
Category 4: Government and Laws
Can you Christmas
100

What type of houses did most colonial settlers live in?

Answer: Log cabins or wooden houses.

100

Who founded the colony of Pennsylvania?



  • Answer: William Penn.
100

  •  What tool did students use to practice reading in colonial schools?



    • Answer: Hornbooks.
100

What document set up the rules for Plymouth Colony in 1620?


  • Answer: The Mayflower Compact.
100

What are the names of Santa’s original eight reindeer?


  • Answer: Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Donner, and Blitzen.
200

What was the most common job in colonial Pennsylvania?


  • Answer: Farming.
200

(CHRISTMAS TRIVIA) What is the name of the reindeer with a glowing red nose?


  • Answer: Rudolph.
200

What crops were known as “cash crops” in Pennsylvania?


  • Answer: Wheat, corn, and rye.
200

) What was the name of William Penn’s fair government idea for Pennsylvania?


  • Answer: The “Holy Experiment.”
200

  •  What is the name of the famous Christmas ballet featuring a toy that comes to life?

The Nutcracker.


300

 How did colonists make their own candles for lighting?


  • Answer: They dipped wicks in melted tallow (animal fat) or beeswax.
300

(200) What religious group did William Penn belong to?


  • Answer: Quakers.
300

  • What did colonists call small schools run inside homes by women?



    • Answer: Dame schools.
300

  • CHRISTMAS TRIVIA) In The Twelve Days of Christmas, what did my true love give me on day 5?



    • Answer: Five golden rings.
300

Which country is credited with creating the tradition of gingerbread houses?

  • Germany

400

What did colonists use to light their homes at night?


  • Answer: Candles or oil lamps.
400

    • Who was an important colonial woman known for helping create the American flag?




Betsy Ross

400

  • (CHRISTMAS TRIVIA) What drink, made with eggs and milk, is popular around Christmas?




      • Answer: Eggnog.
400

What was the “Frame of Government” in Pennsylvania?


  • Answer: A constitution written by William Penn.
400
How many Christmas' have you had and what number is this? Being in womb doesn't count.

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500

  •  What Christmas plant is known for its red and green leaves?



    • Answer: Poinsettia.
500

 Who were the Lenni Lenape?


  • Answer: The Native American group who lived in Pennsylvania before European settlers arrived.
500

) What chores did colonial children often have to do?


  • Answer: Fetch water, tend animals, churn butter, and gather firewood.
500

  1.  What is the name for laws that forced colonists to pay taxes to England?


  • Answer: The Stamp Act or other tax acts.
500

What is the best Christmas movie or song

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