Colonial America Test Review

A young person who is learning a specific skill from someone who is a master at it.

• apprentice

• novice

• intern

A wooden slab with lessons pasted to it used in colonial schools.

• hornbook

• blackboard

• chalkboard

A person living in a colony.

• colonist

• tourist

• nomad

An area of land owned by another country.

• colony

• territory

• state

A large farm that used slaves to grow crops.

• plantation

• orchard

• ranch

Which sentence accurately explains what schools were like in colonial America?

• All children were required to go to school until high school.

• There were no schools in colonial America.

• Boys had more opportunities in colonial schools than girls did.

Which list of tasks below were all completed by men?

• building homes, hunting, and cooking

• building homes, hunting, and plowing fields

• planting crops, making clothes, hunting

Which building in a colonial village would have been used for community gatherings?

• cobbler’s shop

• the tailor’s shop

• the meeting house

Which was NOT a region of the colonies?

• New England

• Southern

• Coastal

• Middle

Children went to ​ (a)   school.

• Dame
• Town

• Elementary