Welcome! The Topic For Today Is…Life in the Colonies

Your Topic Life on a FarmLife in a CityColonial LifeFun and not so Fun Hodgepodge Bonus Question: 5000 pts

Topic 1: 200 Question: What is a word you can use to describe what life on a farm was like. Answer What is hard.

Topic 1: 400 Question: What was the 1 st and hardest task a family faced? Answer What is clearing the land of trees?

Topic 1: 600 Question: What was one of the most dangerous jobs on the farm? Why? Answer What is cooking because you could strain your back lifting and also you could get burned or catch on fire.

Topic 1: 800 Question: What was the main source of heat on a colonial farm? Answer What is the fireplace.

Topic 1: 1000 Question: What are some of the specific chores that people on the farm had to do? Please provide at least 4. Answer What is cut wood, feed animals, clear the land, tend crops, build fences, make furniture, gather eggs, spin thread, cleaning, cooking.

Topic 2: 200 Question: What are some words you can use to describe what life in a city was like? Answer What are noisy and smelly?

Topic 2: 400 Question: What is a reason the city was noisy? Answer What is because of Church bells rung daily. Also people talking around the shops and animals in the streets.

Topic 2: 600 Question: What is a reason the city was smelly? Answer What is because of people dumping garbage in the streets and the animals running around.

Topic 2: 800 Question: What was the center (heart) of the city? Answer What is the waterfront.

Topic 2: 1000 Question: What did colonist keep hanging by their doors that they needed in case of an emergency? Answer What are fire buckets.

Topic 3: 200 Question: What is a word you can use to describe what colonial crime and punishment was like? Answer What is harsh or strict.

Topic 3: 400 Question: What are the 4 classes of colonial society? Answer What are Upper, Middle, Lower, Slaves

Topic 3: 600 Question: What happened to people who murdered someone, committed treason, denied God, or cursed at their parents. Answer They were put to death

Topic 3: 800 Question: What was the name of the route that Africans took when they were packed on slave ships? Answer What is the middle passage?

Topic 3: 1000 Question: What were the name of the laws in New England that the Puritans established that forbade people to work or play on Sunday’s Answer What are blue laws.

Topic 4: 200 Question: What did most colonists have to combine work with? Answer What is play.

Topic 4: 400 Question: Colonists had to combine work and play what is something that a bunch of colonists would get together and help each other build? Answer What is a house or barn?

Topic 4: 600 Question: What vegetable was a major part of most colonial breakfasts' and dinners’? Answer What is corn?

Topic 4: 800 Question: These were held throughout the colonies and at these events colonists complete in skill and artistry such as: footraces, arm wrestling, dance contest, catching a greased pig. Answer What are fairs.

Topic 4: 1000 Question: What was the name of the name of the book that New England students learned their alphabet, syllables, and prayers from? Answer What is the New England Primer.

Topic 5: 200 Question: What was the size of colonial families? Answer What is large

Topic 5: 400 Question: How could you tell what class a person belonged to in colonial times? Answer What is because of the clothes they wore.

Topic 5: 600 Question: Not all slaves worked in the field some slaves did these jobs. Please provide two answers. Answer Nurse, carpenter, blacksmith, drivers, servant, gardener and midwives.

Topic 5: 800 Question: What was the name of the religious revival that swept through the colonies in the 1730s. In other words what is the name of the movement where people in the 1730s started to become more religious than they were? Answer What is the First Great Awakening?

Topic 5: 1000 Question: What was the name of the document that King John signed that gave people in England rights and weakened the power of the monarchy? Answer Magna Carta

Bonus Question: 5000 pts. Question: What was the name of the New England town where the witch trials took place? Answer … What is Salem?

Question: What was the name of the route that Africans took when they were packed on slave ships?

Not all slaves worked in the field some slaves did these jobs. Please provide two answers.