Food
An English drink that became increasingly popular amongst the wealthy and poor alike.
What is tea?
The "breadwinner" of the family.
What was a patriarch?
Went to events like parties, opera, and theatre.
What are the wealthy?
Essentials for _______ included a jacket, vest, and pants.
What are men?
True or false: The poor/lower-class people did have a chance at an education by way of "charity schools."
True.
Two food items that made up most, if not all, of a lower class person's diet.
What is bread and potatoes?
A large sum of money or property brought by a bride to her husband on their marriage.
What is a dowry?
Made up the most powerful social class and the smallest amount of the population; included most important people from aristocracy and squires.
What are wealthy landowners?
A suffocating device that women put on that was supposed to help with good posture.
What is a corset?
Someone that studied writing, arithmetic, Greek history, Latin, etc.
What is an upper-class boy?
Uncommon luxury food item(s) that mostly the wealthy would enjoy.
What is meat and/or chocolate?
A way for a wealthy family to maintain or improve social class; had to do with dowries.
What was marriage?
Roles of men: clearing, plowing, sowing seed, harvesting, and threshing.
Roles of women: knitting, cleaning, tending to animals, teaching the children.
(Hint: Both belonging to a type of family.)
What are the roles in an agricultural family?
Accessories for ______ included gloves, watches, masks, jewelry, caps.
What are women?
Someone that had a governess teach them decorum at balls, embroidery, how to play instruments, etc.
What is an upper-class girl?
What the typical English individual would consume four kilograms of each year.
What is sugar?
Tend the garden, cook for the family, take care of the children, and keep everything running smoothly at home.
What were the duties of a woman?
A sport that involves a ball, bat, and two teams of 11 players; started gaining popularity amongst all classes because both men and women could play.
What is cricket?
Accessories for ______ included three-cornered hats, wigs, and buckled shoes.
What are men?
An institution where girls went to learn how to be proper women.
What is finishing school?
"Take the milk of 12 cows in the morning and the evening cream of 12 cows, put it to 3 spoonsful of rennet, and when it is come, break it, and whey it, and when it is well wheyed break it again, and work into the curd 3 lbs of fresh butter... and turn in it the press for an hour... lay it on your shelf, and turn it often."
What is a recipe for making [cheddar] cheese?
The term for why many women had a higher number of childbirths but a lower number of children.
What is high infant mortality rate?
England's "greatest play of the century."
What is John Gray's The Beggar's Opera, produced in 1728; a social satire that included the poor and alienated the rich?
A word used for knee-length trousers.
What were breeches?
An English poet (1688-1744) known for political/satirical works including An Essay on Man, Rape of the Lock, and his satirical translation of Homer.
Who was Alexander Pope?