If You Lived in Colonial Times

Lessons

• 1 When were colonial times?
• 2 What did colonial people look like?
• 3 Where did people buy their clothes?
• 4 Was there a special time for making clothes?
• 5 How did they wear there hair?
• 6 What did people eat?
• 7 Did children have to worry about table manners?
• 8 Did children go to school?
• 9 Did they have schoolbooks?
• 10 Who learned more--girls or boys?
• 11 What were the schools like?
• 12 What happened if you didn't behave in school?
• 13 What books did children read?
• 14 What happened if you were sick?
• 15 What kind of medicines did people use?
• 16 Were there doctors in colonial days?
• 17 What happened if you went out at night?
• 18 What did people do on Sunday?
• 19 What happened if you fell asleep in the meetinghouse?
• 20 Where did people eat on Sunday?
• 21 What laws did people have to obey?
• 22 What were the special Sunday laws?
• 23 Who made all these laws?
• 24 Could everyone vote in colonial days?
• 25 What happened to people who broke the laws?
• 26 What did colonial houses look like?
• 27 How many rooms did a colonial house have?
• 28 Did big families live in big houses?
• 29 What did the furniture look like?
• 30 What did people sleep on?
• 31 Where did people hang their clothes?
• 32 Where did people take baths?
• 33 Did people work hard in colonial days?
• 34 When did boys and girls work?
• 35 Did children have any time to play?
• 36 What games did boys like?
• 37 What did girls like to do?
• 38 Were there special days just for fun?
• 39 Were there special laws about fun?
• 40 Did people travel much in colonial days?
• 41 How did people get across water?
• 42 How did people travel when there was snow on the ground?
• 43 How did two men travel when they had only one horse?
• 44 How did people get the news?
• 45 How would you write a letter in colonial days?
• 46 What would you use for a pen and ink and envelope?
• 47 How would you send your letter?
• 48 How long did it take to deliver a letter?
• 49 When did the mail service get better?
• 50 Who were the workers in a colonial town?
• 51 What was the busiest part of a New England town?
• 52 Who built the ships in New England