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

Welcome! The Topic For Today Is…Life in the Colonies. Your Topic. Topic 1: 200. Question: What is a word you can use to describe what life on a farm was like. Answer What is hard. Back. Topic 1: 400. Question: What was the 1 st and hardest task a family faced? Answer

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

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

  2. Your Topic

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

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

  5. 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. Back

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

  7. 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. Back

  8. 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? Back

  9. 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. Back

  10. 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. Back

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

  12. 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. Back

  13. 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. Back

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

  15. 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 Back

  16. 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? Back

  17. 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. Back

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

  19. 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? Back

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

  21. 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. Back

  22. 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. Back

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

  24. 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. Back

  25. 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. Back

  26. 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? Back

  27. 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 Back

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

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

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

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