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

Your TopicLife on a Farm Life in a City Colonial Life Fun and not so

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Topic 1: 200• Question:• What is a word you can use to describe what

life on a farm was like. • Answer• What is hard.

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Topic 1: 400• Question:• What was the 1st and hardest task a family

faced?• Answer• What is clearing the land of trees?

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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.

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Topic 1: 800• Question:• What was the main source of heat on a

colonial farm?• Answer• What is the fireplace.

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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.

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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?

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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.

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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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

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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

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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?

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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.

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Topic 4: 200• Question:• What did most colonists have to combine

work with?• Answer• What is play.

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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?

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Topic 4: 600• Question:• What vegetable was a major part of most

colonial breakfasts' and dinners’?• Answer• What is corn?

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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.

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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.

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Topic 5: 200• Question:• What was the size of colonial families?

• Answer• What is large

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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.

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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.

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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?

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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

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Bonus Question: 5000 pts.

• Question:• What was the name of the New England town

where the witch trials took place?• Answer• …• What is Salem?

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

Daily Double

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