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Gr 4 History Ch 7
Grade 4 History Ch 7
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| house-raising | a time when all the neighbors got together to help a new settler build his house |
| homespun | rough, gray material made by early collonists |
| town criers | men who were paid by the town to wander about the streets and call out the latest news |
| circuit-riding preachers | mean who traveled on horseback throughout the South, preaching the Bible |
| dame school | a school taught in a colonial home; where many colonial children started their education |
| hornbrook | one sheet containing the alphabet and the Lord's prayer attached to a wood paddle and protected by a thin sheet of cow's horn |
| old-field schools | small schools started by parents in the Southern Colonies |
| New England Primer | American schoolbook which was used by millions of children for over 150 years |
| Harvard | first college in America |
| Christopher Dock | German Mennonite schoolteacher who greatly influenced education in America |
| 1636 | Harvard, America's first college is started |
| 1647 | New England passes a law ordering cities to build schools for children |
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