Created by Jackie Valentino
A settler is a person who lived in a colony
A colony is a settlement ruled by another country
They did not have big or fancy homes
At first, they only had one room to the house where
they cooked, ate, and slept
They did not have a lot of furniture in the house
People made their own clothes in colonial times
People wore bright-colored clothes made from dyes
Girls would wear red cloaks and hoods
Girls had their hair covered the entire time
Boys wore stockings and caps
They dressed like their fathers at the age of six and
wore wigs
Babies wore clothes called puddings
Boys wore the same dresses as girls until they were six
years old
Some children went to a Dame school where a woman
would teach students in her home
Only boys went to another school after the Dame
school to learn more while girls stayed home
Students had to have nice handwriting, but spelling
was not important
Children sat on hard benches
It was heated by a fireplace
The teacher was paid in corn
There were no bathrooms or running water in a
colonial house
Children stood in a wooden tub of water once a
month!
The father would take a bath first, then the mother,
and then the children
Boys played with drums, balls, hoops, marbles and
kites
Girls played with dolls and sewed samplers
The colonists farmed and grew food to survive
Colonists did not have any machinery like we do today
to make farming easier
Indentured servants worked under a contract for 4 to 7
years without pay, and would then be set free
In the beginning, African Americans were indentured
servants who helped colonists complete work on their
farms
Later, many African Americans were forced into
slavery without any rights
Slavery is the practice of making one person the
property of another
Slaves grew tobacco, cotton, and sugar cane
Slaves also worked various jobs including household
servants and messengers
Slaves did not live in good conditions
They were given what they needed to survive: some
food, clothes and shelter
They were often overworked and punished for not
working fast enough or trying to run away
Slaves used to sing songs while working in the fields
These songs could be about the hardships they faced
or clues about running away
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikkxdg3zatE