New England Colonies!
What New England people traded goods locally, with other colonies, and overseas
What are Merchants?
Who did the apprentices live with to learn the skills of blacksmithing, weaving, shipbuilding, and printing press?
What are Craftsmen?
Education was important in colonial New England, Mothers and fathers wanted their kids to be able to read what? (Massachusetts Bay Colony passed some of the first laws to provide children instruction in Education)
What is the Bible?
In 1636 what college did John Harvard and the General Court find?
What is Harvard?
The New England colonies started reading because they though who was keeping those who couldn't read from the scriptures?
Who is Satan?
What became the region's leading industries. Colonists would hunt whales and have merchants ship them overseas?
What is fishing?
What apprentice in Portsmouth, Rhode Island got sufficient food and raiment clothing for such a suitable apprentice?
Who is Gabriel Ginings?
To be sure that future generations would have educated ministers, communities established what?
What are town schools?
Harvard taught ministers and met the colony’s need for higher what?
What is higher education?
What is the 1st-8th grade?
Became an important industry because they had plenty of forests. They needed these because they needed them for trading and the fishing industry.
What is Shipbuilding
Apprentices had to sign a contract where they had to work for so many years and perform a simple tasks for what in return?
What is living in there home, getting food, and getting clothes?
Schoolchildren often used this to learn about characters and stories from the Bible?
What is the New England Primer?
The second college founded in the colonies by William and Mary, was established in what state?
What is Virginia?
Massachusetts passed a law requiring that all towns with 50 or more families had to build what?
What is the town school?
What are young boys?
After a certain amount of time was passed what did Apprentices become?
What are Journeymen?
If children didn't live near schools who had to teach them?
What is there parents or private tutors?
By 1700 about 70 percent of men and 45 percent of women in what state could read and write?
What is New England?
Why did boys usually go to school in the winter and girls in the summer?
Because there were fewer farm chores in the winter
Young boys, who learned skilled trades where?
What are Apprentices?
Journeymen traveled and learned new skills in their trade to eventually become what?
What is a master of trade?
When did most kids stop with schooling to go work on their family's farms or away from there homes?
In what state were the reading and writing ability within the colonist worst because Jamestown was the only major settlement?
What is Virginia?
These type of girls were only allowed to go to school?
What are Quakers?