The number (out of 20) of colonists living in a city in 1750.
What is 1/20?
100
A series of hearings and prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft.
What is the Salem Witch Trials?
100
The simplest way to climb the "social ladder."
What is wealth?
100
The revival of religious feeling and belief in the American colonies in the 1730's.
What is the First Great Awakening?
100
The average number of children in a colonial family.
What is 7-10?
200
The size of colonial cities.
What is small?
200
The document signed by King John, making it clear that even the king had to obey the law.
What is the Magna Carta?
200
The crossing of the Atlantic Ocean to America from West Africa.
What is the Atlantic Slave Trade?
200
The colony in which towns were required to provide public schools.
What is New England?
200
Colonial men and women generally married at this age.
What is early to mid-20's?
300
Number of colonists living on small family farms. (out of 10)
What is 9/10?
300
The document stating the rights that colonists had as English citizens.
What is the English Bill of Rights?
300
The way in which poor Europeans got to the Americas.
What is indentured servitude?
300
One-room buildings with a chimney and fireplace in the center.
What is a school?
300
An event held to combine work and play.
What is a "bee" or "frolic"?
400
3 chores in colonial times.
What is cutting wood, feeding animals, clearing land, tending crops, building fences, making furniture, tools and clothes, caring for farm animals and babies, making candles and soap, cooking, or cleaning?
400
To ask the government to make changes or laws.
What is the right to petition?
400
The way in which Africans came to the Americas.
What is slavery?
400
The Great Awakening paved the way for this to happen.
What is the American Revolution?
400
Women were outnumbered by them.
What is men?
500
The foundation of the colonial economy.
What is farming, commerce (buying and selling goods) and handcrafts?
500
The meaning of the term "blue laws."
What is the list of things that can and cannot be done on Sundays?
500
The part of the Colonies where slavery spread the quickest.
What is the South?
500
The main reason for slow education growth in the Middle Colonies.
What is the differences between religious groups?
500
3 popular toys and sports.
What is dolls, marbles, tops, tag, stoolball, blindman's bluff, tick-tack, trock, fox hunting, card playing, horse racing, footraces, wrestling matches, and dance contests?