Vocabulary Words
An act passed by Parliament in 1689 that limited the monarch’s power by giving certain powers to Parliament and listing specific rights of the citizens.
What is the English Bill of Rights?
9 out of 10 colonists lived here.
What is a farm?
Tag, Blindman's Bluff, Stoolball
What are games colonial children played?
Most enslaved people came from here.
What is West Africa?
Because of this, the growth of public education in the Middle Colonies was slowed?
What is religious differences?
The lawmaking body of England, consisting of representatives from throughout the kingdom.
What is Parliament?
News from England, paint, carpets, furniture, and books.
What are things ships brought to the colonies from England?
Dolls, marbles, and tops.
What are toys colonial children played with?
Field workers, crop tenders, nurses, carpenters, blacksmiths, midwives, drivers, servants, and gardeners.
What were the jobs of enslaved people?
This taught children in public school how to read and write.
What is the New England Primer?
The exchange of goods and enslaved people between Europe, West Africa, and the Americas.
What is triangular trade?
Church bells, animals, cart's wheels over cobblestone, rotting garbage, and open sewer.
What are the reasons cities were loud and smelly?
Chopping wood, corn husking, quilting, and barn raising.
What are "bees" colonial adults participated in?
Slaves were considered this.
What is property?
The colonies whose neighbors would pool (collect and share) resources to hire a teacher.
What is the Southern Colonies?
Time spent not working.
What is leisure?
To make room for land to grow crops, and farms and other buildings.
Why did farmers need to clear land?
Lawn Bowling, Backgammon, and Billards (pool)
What are games colonial adults played?
Some slaves could rebel by refusing to work or running away.
What is why slaves were not allowed an education?
The main goal of education for students in the New England colonies.
What is to be able to read the Bible?
An agreement made in 1215 listing the rights granted by King John to all free men of the kingdom.
What is Magna Carta?
Why was lots of firewood needed in colonial farm houses?
Fox hunting, card playing, horse racing, and cockfighting.
What are games colonial adults who lived in southern colonies played?
African were packed into ships and crossed the ocean to the New World.
What is The Middle Passage?
In school students used this to write on.
What is bark?