Study Guide

Question 1

What did the Pilgrims sell in the marketplace?

Answer 1

Food, animals, and crafts

Question 2

Where was the marketplace?

Answer 2

In the center of town

Question 3

The Pilgrims wrote with what?

Answer 3

Quill pens

Question 4

What are quill pens?

Answer 4

Pens made out of feathers dipped in ink wells

Question 5

What was a settle?

Answer 5

A wooden bench with a high back

Question 6

What were children not allowed to do at the dinner table?

Answer 6

Talk, cough, spit, or blow their noses

Question 7

Where did the Pilgrims in Jamestown get their water from?

Answer 7

The Jamestown River

Question 8

What happened if boys misbehaved in school?

Answer 8

They were beaten or whipped

Question 9

What happened if boys answered a question wrong at school?

Answer 9

They were put in the corner with a dunce cap

Question 10

What did the Pilgrim men wear?

Answer 10

Breeches, a doublet, socks up to their knees

Question 11

What are breeches and who wore them?

Answer 11

Pants that went to the knee; men wore them

Question 12

What is a doublet and who wore it?

Answer 12

A short jacket that went to the waist; men wore it

Question 13

What colors did the Pilgrims wear?

Answer 13

brown, red, blue, tan, green, black, and white

Question 14

What did Pilgrim women wear?

Answer 14

Waistcoats, aprons, petticoats, bonnets

Question 15

What are waistcoats and who wore them?

Answer 15

Short coats that went to the waist; women wore them

Question 16

What are aprons and who wore them?

Answer 16

They went over women’s skirts

Question 17

What are petticoats and who wore them?

Answer 17

They went under women’s skirts

Question 18

What are bonnets and who wore them?

Answer 18

Women wore bonnets on their heads

Question 19

The very first winter the Pilgrims were where?

Answer 19

In Plymouth

Question 20

How was the Pilgrims’ first winter?

Answer 20

Cold and very harsh

Question 21

How did people in Colonial Times get around?

Answer 21

By either walking or taking a horse-drawn carriage, or riding on horseback

Question 22

What did the people eat?

Answer 22

Bubble and squeak, vegetables, herbs to season their food, some fruit, eggs, cheese, butter, milk, and meat from animals

Question 23

What is bubble and squeak?

Answer 23

A fish and vegetable stew

Question 24

Up until what age were children taught at home in their kitchen by their mothers or dames?

Answer 24

Age 7

Question 25

After age 7, who taught boys at another school?

Answer 25

A headmaster or schoolmaster

Question 26

A headmaster or schoolmaster was what?

Answer 26

Very strict and austere

Question 27

What Indians helped the Pilgrims?

Answer 27

Squanto and Samoset

Question 28

The Pilgrims came to America on what?

Answer 28

A boat named the Mayflower

Question 29

How many Pilgrims died the first Winter?

Answer 29

At least half

Question 30

The Pilgrims' houses were finished in what season?

Answer 30

Spring

Question 31

What is a keeping room?

Answer 31

Where the family slept, ate, and worked

Question 32

What was the town crier's job?

Answer 32

To announce the news of the town as he walked through the streets

Question 33

Children had to have what in school?

Answer 33

Good penmanship

Question 34

Colonists raised what?

Answer 34

Cows, chickens, horses, sheep, pigs, and goats

Question 35

Blacksmiths made what?

Answer 35

Horseshoes

Question 36

The Pilgrims and Indians had how many years of peace between them?

Answer 36

52 years

Question 37

Why did the Pilgrims come to America?

Answer 37

So they could have freedom of religion and to start a new life without being under the King's rule

Question 38

What did the Pilgrims use to start fires?

Answer 38

Flints

Question 39

Where did the Pilgrims land?

Answer 39

Plymouth, Massachusetts

Question 40

Many colonists that lived in the South on plantations owned what?

Answer 40

Slaves

Question 41

The Pilgrims lived in what?

Answer 41

Dugouts

Question 42

What are dugouts?

Answer 42

Where Pilgrims lived while they were building their homes in Plymouth Colony; they were built into the side of a hill

Question 43

What are dugouts made out of?

Answer 43

Sticks and mud and wigwams

Question 44

How long did it take the Pilgrims to sail across the Atlantic Ocean from England?

Answer 44

66 days

Question 45

What ocean did the Pilgrims sail across to get to America?

Answer 45

The Atlantic Ocean

Question 46

What are herbs?

Answer 46

Plants that the Pilgrims used to season their food; they also used them for medicine

Question 47

What did the Pilgrims eat on the Mayflower?

Answer 47

hardtack and salthorse

Question 48

What did a craftsperson make?

Answer 48

Crafts for other people such as furniture, houses, horseshoes, and shoes for people to wear