Colonial Day By: Anna Liguori, Lexi Wirges, Joseph Zitz, Daniel Kelly, Rebecca Zhang, and Noa Hayes

Food People loved to eat corn. They also ate and planted pumpkins and squash the Indian way. They planted and ate beans and trained them to climb up the cornstalks. The men and boys fished for lobsters, clams, and many other kinds of fish. The men and boys hunted for rabbits, squirrels, bears, and deer. Meat was smoked, salted, and pickled. Apples, pumpkins, and peaches were peeled, sliced, and hung to dry. Colonial people drank cider made from apples, pears, and peaches. Children and adults drank beer.

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Jobs Printers made legal documents, newspapers, books, and pamphlets When they printed the papers, it was very important that there were no spelling mistakes or errors The blacksmith was the most important job in any colonial settlement The made and fixed all sorts of iron items such as, horseshoes, tools, axe heads, hammers, nails, and plowshares The cobbler made and repaired shoes Some towns had multiple cobblers and they specialized in all kinds of different kinds of shoes The cooper made different containers such as, barrels, casks and buckets Containers were very important in colonial America for sorting all kinds of things

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Homes Colonial Homes were not big or fancy, and they were not warm Houses in Colonial Days had one room, it was called the Keeping room. No matter how big the House was, the family used the Keeping room for cooking, eating, sleeping and working. There were many kinds of houses. One kind house looked like a Saltbox. Most people had plain furniture. They made it Themselves. In many Houses, there was only one chair. It belonged to the Father. Mothers and Fathers slept in a Jack-Bed. The jack-bed was short to save space Babies slept in cradels near the Fire Place.

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Religion The colonists went to church for 2 hours in the morning and 2 hours in the afternoon The church was called the meetinghouse Babies were put in wooden cages to lie down The children tried not to fall asleep or move around in the meetinghouse If you fell asleep in the meetinghouse, you would get hit by the tithing-man He carried a pole with a knob on one end and a feather on the other side If someone whispered then there name was wrote down Then they would have to pay a fine What they learned depended on where they lived

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Colonial Clothes There was not a left shoe or right shoe People gathered flowers and berries to make different colors for thread Girls wore cloaks and hoods Boys wore stockings and caps There is a “pudding” around a baby’s middle to keep him/her from getting hurt Women made the clothes Men weaved the cloth When boys and girls turned 6, they started wearing clothes like their parents

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Schools Boys went to school two times in one day Girls only learned reading and writing Instead of going to school girls took care of their home Boys had to pay the school master food For most boys school wasn’t comfortable. The benches were very hard and the school was often cold. If kids did something wrong they would get harsh punishments The schoolmaster was often payed corn Boys wrote with a lump of lead

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