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Settling In
Food
N.H. Facts
Daily Life
Earning a Living
100
What did colonists have to remove from their land in order to make room to farm?
stones
100
Name two fruits that N. H. settlers made drinks from.
apples and pears
100
What did the British use New Hampshire's tall white pines for?
masts for sailing ships
100
Why was it so difficult when the fire in colonial fireplaces went out?
Matches had not been invented yet.
100
Besides farming what did N.H. colonists do to earn a living?
fishing business, lumber business or fur business
200
Name a job that younger children did during colonial times.
Younger children milked cows or did light farm work.
200
Name one way N.H. settlers preserved their meat without refrigerators.
salting meat, smoking meat or packing meat in snow
200
Where do Mast Way School and Mast Road get their name?
Logs that were used to make ship masts were taken from this area.
200
What do we call a meetinghose today?
church
200
Besides the Europeans, who else did the colonists trade fur with?
Native Americans
300
What did older children do for work during colonial times?
Older children usually worked with their mother or father.
300
Name three popular animals that N.H. settlers hunted for food.
deer, bear, ducks, geese and passenger pigeons
300
What is the name of New Hampshire's first college, which was founded in Hanover, NH in 1769?
Dartmouth College
300
What was the name of the most popular text book in New England during colonial times?
The New England Primer
300
Name one of the three main crops produced in New Hampshire in colonial times.
corn, beans, or pumpkins
400
Name one natural resource colonists were happy to find when they arrived in New Hampshire.
forests, fish, fur-bearing animals and good soil
400
What did early N.H. colonists put inside baked pumpkins for a special treat to eat?
milk
400
In what town can you find the oldest meetinghouse in New Hampshire that is still standing?
Newington
400
Name one other thing that colonists did at church besides praying.
sing, exchange news, attend lectures, used church as a court, hold town meetings, hold large gatherings.
400
True or False. The kind of work you did during colonial times had little to do with whether you were a boy or girl.
False
500
What natural material did colonists use to make bricks for fireplaces?
clay
500
What dish did boiling corn and beans together make?
succotash
500
What important crop did Scotch-Irish settlers bring to Londonderry, N. H. in 1719?
potatoes
500
What unique item did some colonists make drinking glasses from?
the horns of cattle
500
Which colony built one-sixth of all of New England's large ships during this time period.
New Hampshire