Amish Terms
Rumspringa
What is the teen running around period?
This person founded the Amish religion.
Who is Jakob Amman.
The place where the Amish conduct church services.
What is in their homes?
The grade through which the Amish go to school.
What is 8th?
The primary occupation of the Amish.
What is Farming?
Grossdaadi Haus
(or Daadi Haus)
What are the house additions for multiple generations?
The reason the Amish split from the Mennonites.
What is the Mennonites were becoming too wordly?
The title of the primary spiritual leader in a district.
Who is the Bishop?
The number of classrooms in a typical Amish school.
What is one?
They ride in these, but don't own them.
What are cars?
Ordnung
What is the unwritten set of rules and regulations which dictate their daily life practices?
The Amish came to the US for this reason.
What is to seek religious freedom?
How religious leaders are chose.
What is by lot?
One of the following is not typically taught in Amish schools from among Arithmetic, Spelling, Chemistry, and Geography.
What is Chemistry?
The color of Lancaster County buggies.
What is gray?
Demut
What is the German word for humility?
A martyr.
What is someone who is persecuted for their religious belifes.
The definition of Anabaptist.
What is someone who believes in adult baptism?
The month at the end of the Amish school year.
What is May?
The place the Amish get their clothes.
What is at home? They are home made.
Ausbund
What is the name of the Amish hymnal/song book?
The century during which the Amish came to the US.
What is the 18th?
(What are the 1700s?)
Language spoken during church services?
What is High German?
The state in which the US Supreme Court first allowed the Amish to run their own school system.
What is Wisconsin?
A typical way for the Amish to light their lamps.
What is by gas flames?