1. Life in the New England Colonies

2. Farming – hilly/rocky; hard to plow; stone fences; short growing season Subsistence farming – enough crops for family Sea harvesting – profits allowed them to import goods; whaling for oil; Nantucket and Martha’s Vineyard whaling ports

3. Forests – firewood; houses; furniture;wood used for shipbuilding Artisans – craft workers (carpenters; coopers which were barrel makers) Women – shop merchants; produced cloth, garments, candles, soap, furniture Boston – largest city with 17,000 people; trading center

4. Triangular trade/slave routes – West Indies to North America to Europe to Africa Margaret Brent – 1st female lawyer; denied right to vote; colonial attorney for MD Dame schools – women taught alphabet, reading, Bible verses, arithmetic

5. Hornbook – flat wooden board shaped like paddle; held sheet of paper with alphabet, Lord’s Prayer; covered with thin sheet of transparent horn New England Primer – book with alphabet and religious text MA School Law – teacher hired if more than 50 households were present Harvard – first college; founded in Cambridge, Mass. in 1636 Meetinghouse - church

6. Common – open field; called the “green”; social center of town Saltbox – house resembled a salt container Children – worked hard; played jacks, marbles, hide-and-seek Sabbath – high point of week; forbade work; at meetinghouse, men sat on one side and women on the other; slaves and servants sat in back; all day sermons

7. Tithingman – carried a long pole; feather on one end; knob on other; hit or tickled those who fell asleep Town meeting – free men discussed/voted on community concerns; elected town leaders called selectmen; forerunners of democracy