Colonial America Life

The American Indians introduced many new foods to European settlers.

Which type of food was not considered standard fare for a colonial meal?

Puritans emphasized education primarily because they wanted children to

The Protestant Reformation improved spiritual conditions but did not affect education.

Which of the following was not characteristic of early colonial settlers?

Few Germans wanted to move to the backcountry.

Scots-Irish and German settlers

Children were an important labor source on colonial farms.

Infant death rates in the colonies were

Which of the following was not true about education in the colonies?

Epidemics in the colonies were more common during the eighteenth-century colonies than during the previous because

A well-known minister in the colonies

American businessmen refused to wear wigs like the Europeans.

Puritans enjoyed few pleasures in their lives.

Most southern planters lived in stately white mansions.

The Pennsylvania Dutch were

Women in America married earlier than women in Europe because

What were dame schools?

Which of the following was not an epidemic that seriously reduced the population of New England?

America’s population increased greatly during the eighteenth century.