Colonial Life
Vocabulary
13 Colonies
Colonial School
Explorers
100
The number of rooms in a colonial house.
What is two?
100
The exchange of items between two people.
What is trade?
100
New Jersey is part of the
What is the Middle colonies?
100
Subjects students learned in colonial schools.
What is reading, writing, and math?
100
This person sailed the ocean blue in 1492 to find a water route from Europe to the Indies.
Who is Christopher Columbus? 
200
Men in colonial times
What is raised animals and planted crops?
200
A place ruled by another country.
What is a colony?
200
Maine is part of the
What is the New England colonies? 
200
Grades of students in colonial schools.
What is 1st through 8th grade?
200
This Italian sailor was sent by England to sail the Atlantic Ocean.
Who is John Cabot?
300
Women in colonial times
What is cooked and sewed? or made soap and butter?
300
A document that contains basic rules for governing a colony. 
What is a constitution? 
300
Virginia is part of the
What is the Southern colonies?
300
Colonial education was influenced by 
What is religion? 
300
This person was sent by France in 1524 to find a water route to Asia.
Who is Giovanni da Verrazano?
400
The type of people that were allowed to vote in colonial times.
Who are white men that owned land?
400

Enslaved Africans sold to landowners, no promise of freedom, worked long hours in homes/fields of their owner.

What are slaves?
400
Two colonies from the New England colonies are:

What is Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, or Connecticut?



400
Materials students used in colonial schools. 
What are quills and horn books? 
400
This person met the Lenape Indians in New York when they sailed to America in 1609.
Who is Henry Hudson?
500
Two things colonial people did at the meetinghouse.
What is religious services and make rules/laws?
500

Worked for a landowner in exchange for a free trip to colony, signed a contract for 3 to 7 years, after that they could start their own colony.

What are indentured servants?
500
Two colonies from the Middle colonies are

What is Delaware, New Jersey, New York, or Pennsylvania?

500
The name of the school that younger children attended. 
What is dame school?
500
New Jersey's original name. 
What is New Netherland?