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Puritans & Quakers
100
A person who supported the king?
What is a Loyalist?
100
These wooden dishes were easy for a colonist to make and had a place carved out for food and salt.
What are trenchers?
100
These were commonly made from wood and had the alphabet and the Lord's Prayer on them.
What is a hornbook?
100
This food was made from ground corn and salt cooked in hot water.
What is hasty pudding or pudding.
100
The Quaker churches do not have one of these.
What is a priest or preacher?
200
A person who is against the King and his people.
What is a traitor?
200
This was used to "spin" wool and flax into yarn or thread.
What is a spindle?
200
Young children would attend this school in order to learn basic reading and writing.
What is a Dame School?
200
This sugar-based food was a common sweetener in Colonial cooking.
What is molasses?
200
This state is known as "Penn's Woods."
What is Pennsylvania?
300
A document, given by the King, telling how a colony is to be run and what rights they have.
What is a royal charter or charter?
300
Tallow, beeswax, bayberries, animal fat, stearin, and petroleum were used to make these.
What are candles?
300
In the colonies, this was the most commonly read book.
What is the Bible?
300
This corn-based "cake" was a staple in the colonies.
What is Johnny Cake?
300
The Puritans believed that this church was not doing things correctly.
What is the Church of England.
400
This man was governor of the provinces of New York, East and West Jersey, Virginia, and Maryland.
Who is Governor Andros?
400
These were built in "zig-zags" and were used to prevent damage to crops.
What are split-rail fences?
400
This is where a male teacher taught advanced arithmetic, writing, Latin, and Greek to boys.
What is a grammar school?
400
Although cinnamon and cloves were in this sweet "bread," ginger was the main spice.
What is gingerbread?
400
Puritans in this colony persecuted (treated very badly) Quakers.
What is Massachusetts Bay Colony?
500
A person charged with the care of persons, animals, or things.
What is a warden?
500
Men and women would get together and help build these.
What are barns?
500
Paper was very expensive so students practiced on this instead.
What is birch-bark?
500
This beverage was served with sugar and milk in England and in well-off households in the colonies.
What is tea?
500
The Quakers were for the abolition of slavery, promoting equal rights for women, and ...
What is peace?