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LH-2nd Grade History
History Material 5
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What do you call a land ruled by another country? | a colony |
| Which country once ruled the American colonies? | England |
| Nearly every day, the colonists ate _____. | stew |
| What did people in the North use to sweeten food if they could not afford sugar? | maple syrup |
| Where did maple syrup come from? | maple trees |
| Who taught the colonists how to gather maple syrup? | the Indians |
| A man called a _____ was the teacher in a colonial school. | schoolmaster |
| What was the first book children learned to read called? | a hornbook |
| In the year _____, America fought England for freedom in the Revolutionary War. | 1776 |
| Who won the Revolutionary War? | the American colonists |
| What letter is written like "f" in the New England Primer? | lowercase "s" |
| What did colonists use on windows if they could not afford glass? | oiled paper |
| What do you call a person who makes barrels? | a cooper |
| What do you call a person who made or repaired items made of silver? | a silversmith |
| What do you call a person who sold medicine? | an apothecary |
| What do you call a person who worked with a black metal called iron? | a blacksmith |
| The blacksmith was also the colonial _____. | dentist |
| What do you call a person who made furniture and cabinets? | a joiner |
| What do you call a person who made or mended shoes? | a cobbler |
| What do you call a person who worked with a white metal called tin? | a whitesmith |
| England is located closely to America. | False |
| All colonists lived in the same kind of houses | False |
| Colonists did not have refrigerators. | True |
| Cobblers made 2 shoes exactly alike. | True |
| All colonial children went to school. | False |
| Classes for all ages of children were held together in one room. | True |
| All window in the colonists' houses were glass. | False |
| What is one item the colonists saved in barrels. | fish |
| What is one item a silversmith would have made. | earrings |
| What is one item a blacksmith would have made. | horseshoes |
| What is one item a whitesmith would have made. | lanterns |
| The children would take turns bringing something to school. What was it? | firewood |
| How far did the colonial children usually have to walk to school? | 3 to 4 miles |
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