Children in Dame school used a special kind of schoolbook called
The hornbook
100
Name 3 different uses for a homes fireplace
cooking
reading
heating the house
100
True or False
It was against the law to kiss your mother on Sunday
True
100
What is an apprentice
a person who lives with a craftsman to learn their trade
200
This worker made items out of leather
What is the tanner
200
What happened if you forgot to bring firewood to school
You had to sit far away from the fire in the coldest part of the room
200
Young girls would make their own soap out of what?
fireplace ashes and animal fat
200
What is the pillory
A punishment device where you put your arms and legs in as a form of punishment
200
Someone who sells things door to door or town to town
Peddler
300
A person who is responsible for grinding corn and wheat into cornmeal and flour
What is the miller
300
What was the name of CT's first college
Yale (collegiate School)
300
What is the name of the plant fiber that women used to spin into thread
Flax
300
Who made all the laws
The men of the town/ New laws were passed at teh town meetings
300
What is the definition of gristmill
a a mill for grinding grain into flour
400
Seth Thomas and this man were famous clockmakers from CT
Who is Eli Terry
400
How many families did a town need in order to set up a school
100
400
Name 3 jobs that a boy in colonial times would have
Chop wood
feed animals
clean the barn
run errands
pick berries
pull weeds
gather vegetables
400
Name 3 sunday laws
Everyone had to got o the meetinghouse on lords day
No laughing or playing games
no work
A man could not cut/shave his hair
No kissing you mother/father
400
What is the time between the last frost of spring and the first frost of fall called? The time when farmers can plant crops
The Growing Season
500
If your shoes were worn out you would bring them to this person to fix
The cobbler
500
This book, used by the older students, had many religious lessons in it
The New England Primer
500
Not all black people were slaves. What did some free African Americans do for work? Name 2
farmers
paid servants
shipyards
strat own business
500
Why did the genreal assembly make laws
To make sure that families were living the right way