Farm/City Life
Describe what life was like on a colonial farm.
What is
In the New England colonies, crimes that could be punished by death.
What are murder, treason, and piracy?
The triangular trade
What was exchange of goods and people between Europe, West Africa, and the Americas?
Education in the Southern colonies
Little education for poorer families, older children went to New England or near by cities, wealthy children had tutors.
When were indentured servants allowed to get married?
What was when they gained their freedom?
Describe what life was like in the colonial cities.
What is noisy, smelly, trading ports, merchants, church bells ringing, busy, etc?
Crimes that the Puritans added to their list that were punishable by death.
What were “denying the true God” or for striking or cursing their parents?
Middle passage
What was the journey of slave ships from Africa to America?
Education in Middle Colonies
Each religious group or family had to decide for itself how to educate its children.
Why were most women likely to receive a marriage proposal?
What is men outnumbered women?
Farmers developed an economy based on ___________.
What is agriculture?
Caused the Salem Witch trials, and was the result of the Salem Witch Trials.
What was girls accused neighbors of being witches and putting spells on them. Nineteen accused witches were put to death during the Salem witch trials before calm was restored and the townspeople realized that the girls' accusations were untrue.
What was life like for African American slaves during the colonial period?
What was hard work, no freedom, worked in various roles?
Education in the New England colonies
Required public education
Why were most colonial farm families large?
They needed all the hands they could get to help with chores and the impending harvest each year and religious views influenced families.
Describe two reasons why settlers worked the land in the colonies.
What is increase commerce between the colonies and Great Britain or to be self sufficient/self gain?
How did the Great Awakening help pave the way for the American Revolution?
What was by encouraging ideas of liberty, equality, and self-reliance?
Describe the conflicts and cooperation between Native Americans and colonists.
Colonists spread disease to Natives and tried to sell them into slavery. Natives taught colonists how to farm and fish and traded with them.
How did Massachusetts help promote education?
What is passed a law in 1647 that required every town with 50 families or more to hire an instructor to teach their children to read and write? Towns with more than 100 families were required to build a school.
Causes of childhood deaths in the colonies.
Malaria