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Amish Women
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Do you remember?
100
The number of wagons or buggies that the Amish use or have.
What is three?
100
The grade that Amish students end their education.
What is eighth grade?
100
Women sew these by hand using specific colors and patterns.
What are quilts?
100
The Amish use this type of farming to prevent erosion among their crops.
What is strip farming?
100
The Amish find a set of rules with this title.
What is the Ordnung?
200
The buggy that carries up to 6 family members to different places (minivan).
What is the family buggy?
200
The number of students in a schoolhouse.
What is thirty children?
200
True or false: Amish women are allowed to cut their hair.
False! Amish women do not wear jewelry or cut their hair.
200
This happens when the men in the community come together to rebuild a barn after it has collapsed or burned down.
What is a barn raising?
200
Amish girls and women wear these three colors.
What is green, blue, and purple?
300
The wagon that hauls items to and from the market (pickup truck).
What is the market wagon?
300
True or False: The Amish receive help from the government to build and run their schools.
False! The Amish pay local taxes, but do not accept any financial help from the government. They are self-run!
300
True or false: An Amish woman's first responsibility is tending to the farm.
False! Even though a woman might have some responsibility with the farm, the men typically tend to the farm as their first priority.
300
True or false: During a barn raising, the men bring all of the materials over and build a brand new barn from scratch, with no plans needed.
True! The Amish men are amazing! They are able to build a brand new barn with all of the necessary materials.
300
True or false: Amish men grow beards once they are married.
True!
400
The buggy that 16 year old boys take for dates (convertible).
What is the courting buggy?
400
The person who would run a schoolhouse. (Hint: Is this person married or single? Is this person a man or a woman?)
What is a single woman? Women remain single because it is too difficult to run a family and teach.
400
FOR DOUBLE THE POINTS: True or false: The color of a woman's prayer cap can sometimes be used to see if a woman is single or married.
True! In some areas, a black prayer cap means a married woman, and a white prayer cap means a single woman.
400
True or false: The boys of the communities get to build during a barn raising.
False! They will run errands for the men while they are building and bring them the tools they need.
400
This is the name of the religion that the Amish branched from.
Who are the Anabaptists?
500
The place where Amish people normally buy their horses from.
What are racetrack auctions?
500
A typical school day lasts from _:__a.m. until _:__p.m.
What is 8:00 a.m. until 3:00 p.m.?
500
True or False: When it comes to preparing the food, the women and the girls of the house typically do it by themselves.
True! The women and the girls of the household take care of the meals for the family.
500
CHALLENGE: The Amish men do not wear buttons for a reason. What is that reason?
They do not wear buttons because it reminds them of the military and the time of war and violence that they did not agree with.
500
Jakob Amman had three main beliefs that caused him to create the Amish. Can you remember the three beliefs?
1. Footwashing-He believed that hosts should wash their guests feet as they did in the Bible. 2. Shunning-He believed that the community should shun t hose in the community who chose to break the Ordnung. 3. Plain dress-He believed that the Bible told them to dress plainly.