Colonial Homes
A home on a large farm
What are plantations?
What is corn?
Both men and women wore these to cover their legs.
What are stockings?
Worked without pay on large plantations
What are slaves?
People who owed money
Floors in early homes were made of this material.
What is dirt?
Common breakfast food in the colonies
What is porridge?
Tight-fitting vest worn by men.
What are waistcoats?
Gathered in the fall by farmers
What is harvest?
Laws outlining rights of slave owners and slaves.
Early homes had mattresses made of this material.
In the winter, meat was preserved using this method.
What are barrels?
Similar to skirts worn by women.
What are petticoats?
Young boys who learned a trade
What is apprentice?
Slavery was not abolished until after this
What is Civil War?
On Georgian Colonial Homes, these were symmetrical.
What are windows?
These colonies could store meat outside in the winter.
What are Northern Colonies?
Made to keep women's hands warm
What are muffs?
People who worked with specific skills in cities
Servants to exchanged their labor for passage
What are indentured slaves?
Mixture of clay, mud, and grass.
What is daub?
Wooden plates in Colonial times were called
What is banyan?
Very wealthy class of people
Many slaves worked in these fields.
What are cotton fields?