Look at the link below. There are several different articles about Colonial America from people to events. Pick 3 different articles from 3 different sections. Write a summary for each (in one blog post). It is highly recommended that you write it ALL in a Word Document before hand so that you do not lose any of your work.
Colonial America
William Penn : William Penn was born on October 14th 1644 in London, England. He was the son of a wealthy admiral in the navy and was very famous he also owned vast amount of land. Because his father was rich William received a good education and by 16 had a private tutor. William believed in the Quaker religion and so was sent to jail for this a few times but was bailed by his father. His father didn’t believe in his son’s ways but soon grew to except it. Penn became famous because of his books about the Quaker religion. His father became ill during that time when Penn was arrested but still left William a large fortune when he died. Later on in Penn’s life he asked the king of England if he could have a charter of land so he could start a colony in the new world. The King said yes and made the name of the colony Pennsylvania in honor of Williams’s father. The colony was a great success! It grew a lot because it had religious freedom. William died on July 30, 1718 in Berkshire, England.
ReplyDeleteDaily Life on the farm : The first part of a day on the farm would be the breakfast right as the sun rose you would wake up and have a quick and easy breakfast. Breakfast usually consisted of porridge and beer and it would be very fast. After breakfast they would go to work. The men worked outside they did different jobs different times of the year. In the spring they would till and plant in the fields and in the fall they harvested the crop. The rest of the time they tended and fixed little thing around the farm that needed maintenance. The women worked just as hard as the men but in a different area of work. They cooked and prepared the meals, sewed and fixed the clothes, made candles, tended to the garden, made food in advance for the winter, wove cloth, and raised the children. Even the children worked the boys helped there father and the girls helped there mother. In most places children had very little school and the daughter was often not taught to read or wright at all and if the boys were taught they were often taught by a minister.
Places in the colony : Usually the first building to be made in a town would be the meeting house. The meeting house served as a puritan church and as a meeting place for the citizens of the town to discuss issues and stuff. They also built a courthouse the court house is and was for judges to decide if a person is guilty or not guilty. They also built a goal a goal was the town jail. They also built magazines. Magazines was a building designed to hold the towns weapons including muskets, swords, pikes, and gunpowder. They also built taverns the tavern was a place you could get a quick meal and a drink. At the center of a town there often was a market square in the market square there usually was a farmer’s market type thing. They also built coffee houses the coffee house was like the tavern but fancier they typically served nonalcoholic beverages such as coffee, tea, or chocolate. The last thing was the shops there were various things the shops sold but they were usually different.
The Salem Witch Trials was where people were accused of being witches. If someone was accused of being a witch they would go through trials to see if that person was a witch. The trials were the touch test where if someone having a fit they would calm down if they touched a witch, confession by dunking where they would dunk a person until they confessed that they were a witch, and Lord’s Prayer where if a person couldn’t say they lord’s prayer without a mistake then they were a witch. There are also others like if they see a witch in their dreams, they would have heavy stones put on them until they confessed, they would tie the person up and throw then in a lake if they flouted then they were a witch and if they didn’t they would drown. The article also says that around 20 people died and that 150 or so were imprisoned.
ReplyDeleteIn the article about women’s clothing it said how women wore many different layers of clothing to make the gown on the top layer. They wore the shift which is like underwear, the stay, that helps give the women good posture, the stockings which were socks, the petticoat that is similar to a skirt, and then finally the gown. The article also said that women wore different kinds of hats, the cap, the hat, and the mob cap or bonnet. Girls start to dress like the women around the ages 5 and 6.
The article on food and cooking talked about what kinds of food the colonists ate and how the cooked. The colonists ate meat such as turkey, deer, rabbits, ducks and geese. They fished to get food and they would get things like salmon, cod, flounder, trout, clams, halibut, and lobsters. The colonists would farm and they would grow wheat, corn, beans, oats, pumpkins, and barley. During winter they would salt or smoke meat to preserve it and in colder colonies they might leave food outside covered in snow during the winter.