Life in the Colonies- NOTES Name:____________________
Families
• Families were ______________, dues to the amount of ___________ that needed to be done.
• Houses were _____________, extended families living together
• After time, women mainly worked with ____________ preparation and children. Men worked in the ___________, barns and stores.
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Education
· Schooling wasn’t _____________ in the colonies
· Rich families would ______ children to a friend who could read.
· Teachers were paid in ___________ such as food or animal skins in the beginning, later paid with money
· One _______ school house- ____________ of content
· ___________ if students misbehaved
· _________ were typically the ones educated. Girls were encouraged to stay home.
· Massachusetts School of _______ of 1647 established the _______ ________ school system in the colonies
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Church
• Churches were a place to _______________, advertise or celebrate major events
• Churches were sometimes separated by ___________ class or _____________- Slaves and Native Americans in the back
• Puritans preferred ____________ churches.
• Puritan Life was ________________ around religion
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Life on the Frontier
• ____________ and ________________ territory
• Survival was based on the use of a ____________ – used for ____________ and trading furs and meat plus ______________ from wild animals
• Less ___________, no set law they preferred to interrogate suspects or whip
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Conestoga Wagon
· ________ Top, Large and _________, ________ shaped body
· Popular for _______________ south
Slavery
· The triangular trade route (sometimes called the Middle Passage) connected New England, the West Indies and __________________.
· Ships brought __________ and molasses from the West Indies to the New England Colonies. New England would make the molasses into ______. Rum and other goods were shipped to West Africa and ___________ for slaves.
· Called “Triangular” because it was shaped like a ______________.
· New England colonies ____________ economically, ____________ grew.
Navigation Acts
• A series of 1651 and 1673 that ___________ the flow of goods between England and the colonies.
• The laws said
– that they could not use _____________ ships
– Prevented the colonists from sending certain products such as ________ and _________
• Colonists ignored and traded _______________
• More _____________ between Americas and England
Bacon’s Rebellion
• The governor of Virginia, William Berkley wanted to _______ conflict with the Native Americans so he agreed to stay _____ their lands
• Nathaniel Bacon led a ____ in Virginia in 1676 because many had settled in the lands and were ____________ by their government
• Bacon led ____________ on the Native Americans and set fire to the capital building in Jamestown
• Showed the government that the settlers did not want to be ___________ to the __________
• A __________ force was created to control the Native Americans and ________ up more land for settlement
Glorious Revolution
• In England in 1688, people were _____________ with the King.
• The people rose up and ______________ out the King without firing a single shot. They ___________ the king with Mary and William of Orange.
• Showed the power of elected ________________ over the monarch
• William and Mary signed the _____________________________ in 1689 which later became the inspiration for the American Bill of Rights
Freedom of the Press
• ___________________ started New York Weekly
• He printed a critical ____________ about the Royal _______________ of New York.
• He was charged with _________
• Andrew Hamilton argued that this violated his right of _____ ________, a basic right of the people
• By a jury of his peers, Zenger was found _______ guilty
• ____________ step to free of the press in America