US History BJU Colonial Life at Home

Early Houses were important for what?

• Made for survival in certain kinds of the weather
• made to be elaborate like England
• just thrown together

What is Colonial style or Williamsburg style architecture?

• houses dug out of cliffs and caves
• wigwams
• steep gable roofs, tall brick chimeny
• simple log houses
• clapboard house

What type of houses did southerners live in ?

• wigwams
• steep gable roofs, with tall brick chimneys
• houses dug out of caves
• simple log or clapboard houses

What type of food did the indians have when settlers arrived?

• corn/maize, pumpkins, squash, tomatoes, penuts
• jelly, clams, eel, bananas
• cheese, melons,
• cows, pigs, sheep

What type of food was only for the rich?

• corn/maize
• cranberry tarts and cheese
• indian whortleberry pudding
• codfish

What foods did Europeans bring to America?

• rice, wheat, oats, tea, coffee
• indian wholtleberry putdding, corn, and peppers
• squash, melons, and pepers
• nothing

Why was education important to the colonials?

• to learn how to farm
• to read the Bible
• to start a newspaper
• to sail a boat

Reformation trigured a spiritual revolution and a ___ revolution.

• farming
• industrial
• educational
• labor

What was a law that was founded upon public education with Christian influence society?

• Educational Act of 1654

• Timothy Farmer Act

• New England Primer

• Old Deluder Satan Act

How did parents in the colonial days provide education?

• traveled back to England
• extrordinary sacrifices
• they homeschooled them
• purchased anything they wanted