US History 3 Review

The New England Primer was a

What were Protestant settlers from Northern Ireland called?

What were dame schools?

Women in America married earlier than women in Europe because

America's population increased tenfold during the eighteenth century.

The two largest non-English groups in America were

The Pennsylvania Dutch were

Village schools were called dame schools because the teachers were usually widows or spinsters.

Village schools were called dame schools because the teachers were usually widows or spinsters.

The custom of men's wearing powdered wigs originally came from

Infant death rates in the colonies were

An important Native American food was

What paddle-shaped board did the colonists' children use for reading?

Children were an important labor source on colonial farms.

In education, the middle colonies and the South lagged behind New England because

The main reason the Scots-Irish and the Germans came to America was to

Epidemics were more common in the eighteenth-century colonies because

The "colonial style" of architecture

Puritans emphasized education primarily because they wanted children to

Few Germans wanted to move to the backcountry.

Colonial women married at a much earlier age than European women did.