Study Guide for Chapter 4 – Life in the Colonies



Study Guide & Review Sheet for Life in the 13 English Colonies in North America Assessment

TCi textbook pages 64-81

“What was life really like in the colonies?

Introduction 4.1

What did the life of Benjamin Franklin tell you about colonial life?

What is an almanac?

What does the success of Poor Richard’s almanac tell you about literacy rates in the colonies?

Life on a Farm 4.2

What percentage of colonists lived on small family farms?

Describe a typical colonial farmhouse.

Why is the fire kept burning all the time?

Life in Cities 4.3

Why was the waterfront the heart of a city?

What types of businesses could be found in a city?

Why was fire a risk in the cites?

Were cities in the colonial period like modern cities? Why or why not?

Rights of Colonist 4.4

What was the significance of the Magna Carta (1215)?

Who made up Parliament and when was it founded?

What did James the II do that made the English overthrow his government?

What was the name of that event? What did it say about the power of the king?

What was the English Bill of Rights (1689)?

Describe 2 rights English citizens were guaranteed under this new Act.

Crime and Punishment (4.4 continued)

What was the role of colonial assemblies?

What crimes could be punished by death?

What were the punishments for lesser crimes?

How did the laws of the Puritans differ from the rest of the colonies?

What happened in Salem in 1691?

Life for African Americans 4.5

Where did slaves live in the colonies?

Why did Benjamin Franklin hire servants rather than buy slaves?

Why did slavery grow rapidly in the Southern Colonies?

Where did most slaves come from?

Religion 4.6

What aspects of colonial life demonstrate that religion was an important part of colonists’ lives?

What was the Great Awakening and how was it different to traditional religious services?

What effect did the Great Awakening have on the colonies and how might it have helped pave the way for the American Revolution?

Education 4.7

What is meant by formal education?

Which region had public schools?

Why did it not exist in the other 2 regions?

Describe the law passed in 1647 in Massachusetts and later in other New England Colonies.

How was the education of girls and boys different?

Colonial Families 4.8

Compare a colonial family to that of a modern-day family.

What disease made childhood deaths higher in the Southern and Middle Colonies?

How did families treat each other?

Leisure 4.9

What were Bees and Frolics?

Why did colonists combine work with social events?

What activities and sports were popular in the Southern Colonies? Why were they not present in the other regions?

Essential Question: How does where you live effect how you live?

• How was daily life in similar and different in each of the 3 regions?

• How did the religious beliefs of each colony impact their way of life?

• How did the geography influence the way of life in each colony?

Trade in the Thirteen Colonies

• Define the terms: Mercantilism, imports and exports

• What were the main products exported by the colonies to England?

• Why did England establish colonies?

• How did trade under the mercantile system help the colonists? Help England? Hurt the colonists?

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