4th Grade History - Chapter 7
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- Ben Franklin
- invented the rocking chair
- circuit riding preachers
- men who traveled on horseback throughout the South preaching the Bible
- hornbook
- a paddle shaped board to which was attached one sheet containing the alphabet and Lord's Prayer
- dame school
- where most colonial children began their education
- making clothes
- this was one of the most important jobs of a colonial housewife
- plain, simple, well-built
- this describes the first New England churches
- large farms separating families
- the reason why there were so few churches in the Southern Colonies
- New England Primer
- for over 150 years millions of American children learned to read from this book
- plant a garden
- one of the first things that a most colonists did in America
- corn
- this was the chief food crop in the colonies
- old field school
- a type of school common in the South
- Harvard
- the name of America's first college
- Paul Revere
- the most famous American silversmith
- fireplace
- this provided both light and heat
- Quakers, Baptist, Mennonites, etc.
- these groups of people came to the Middle Colonies to escape persecution
- homespun
- rough, gray material made by colonial women
- farming or hunting
- this kept colonial men busy most of their day
- cotton and tobacco
- the two crops which earned money for the South
- Bible
- this was the most important book for most colonists
- house raising
- a time when all the neighbors got together to help a new setler build his house
- Christopher Dock
- the Mennonite school teacher who greatly influenced American schools
- town criers
- these men where paid by the city to wander the streets and call out the latest news