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How many days a week did men work? BONUS 10 why did they work that many days?
6 BONUS: Sunday was the lords day.
Did women living in the city have more rights than other women?
No
What was the school girls and boys could go to called?
Dame school
What was the main room of the house called?
The keeping room
What were Sundays called?
Lords day
Who worked with shoes?
The Cobbler
Order these women from least to most rights: married women; slave women; unmarried women
Slave women; married women; unmarried women
Who went to college and where?
Boys with wealthy fathers could go to college in England, but going to college was rare.
Who sat on the chair?
The father
Name 3 laws
-No bad language
-You could not get drunk
-Bread makers could not make bad bread
-Brewers could not brew bad beer
-It was illegal for a poor man to have fancy clothes like the rich people
-If you were too poor to feed dog you couldn't have one
-Rich people could only have one dog
-On Sunday you couldn't laugh or play games
-You couldn't do any work or even make your bed on Sunday
-Women couldn’t talk back to their husband
-Sledding and in some places swimming was illegal - this was because they thought it was a waste of time.
-Dancing was a sin, but most people danced anyway
What did the Pewter make?
A pewterer made silverware, pots, glasses, and plates out of pewter
Name 3 rights unmarried women have that married women didn't have. BONUS 10 what widows could do once their husbands died
-Own land
-Sell land
-Buy land
-Have a will
BONUS - keep 1/3 of his land, take over his business
What is 1 thing girls did after school and 1 thing boys did after school?
GIRLS - Cook, clean, sew
BOYS - Help their fathers
Where did the women and children sit? What were they?
On wooden benches or on the settle. The settle was a long wooden bench with high sides and a high back.
Name 3 laws that only applied on Sundays
-No laughing or playing
-No working at all
-Men couldn't shave or cut their hair
-Children couldn't kiss their mother or father
-You hade to go to the meeting house
-No talking, laughing, smiling in the meeting house
-No sleeping in the meeting house
Who was one of the most important people? What did he do?
The copper made barrels and buckets
Name 4 things the women are supposed to do. BONUS 5 for each extra
-preparing meals
-mending clothes
-making baskets-
doing laundry
-preserving food for the winter
-tending to the livestock
-making candle
-dyeing cloth
What was the most important book?
The Bible
Who slept where, and on what?
The adults slept in the keeping room on the top of the jack bed, the babies and small children slept on the pullout under the jack bed, the older children slept in the attic on bags filled with straw or sometimes, they slept on a softer mattress filled with feathers or wool
Who is the tithingman and what does he do?
The tithingman was in charge of making sure everyone paid attention, he would hit or tickle you if you fell asleep or laughed.
What didn't the clockmaker make
the outside casing for a clock
Finish this excerpt: Most women received ___ ___ education. Some women knew how to read and write, but it was usually ___ and ___ ___ ___. Girls went to ___ school with the boys until they were about ___. After dame school, the girls went ___ to study with their ___. A woman's main job was to ___ ___ ___
very little; self-taught; not very good; dame; 6 or 7; home; moms; manage the house
Most women received very little education. Some women knew how to read and write, but it was usually self-taught and not very good. Girls went to dame school with the boys until they were about 6, or 7. After dame school, the girls went home to study with their moms. A woman's main job was to manage the house
What did they write on, and what did they write with in school?
Wrote on Birch Tree Bark. Wrote with a lump of lead or a goose quill pen and ink
Name 4 facts about water in colonial America
-No running water
-You had to carry it home from a well in wooden buckets
-There was no way to make sure it was safe
-Most people didn't drink the water
-Most people did not bathe often
-If you wanted to bathe you did it in a large bucket in front of the fireplace
-Since the water was not clean some cows drank beer which made their milk gross, it was called swill milk. Swill milk mad children sick
What does it mean to be ducked?
When a criminal was tied to a chair at the end of a pole, he was then dunked into the water as a punishment