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206206844Inoculations...A Technique Cotton Mather used against smallpox
206206845Williamsburg Style...Another name for colonial style architecture.
206206846What city established the first public library in America?...Charleston, S.C
206206847Flooded ditches were necessary to grow what crop?...Rice
206206848Williamsburg...A style of colonial architecture.
206206849Hornbook...A paddle shaped board for reading.
206206850New England Courant...Colonial Newspaper
206206851New England Primer...Standard test in the colonial period.
206206852Pennsylvania Dutch...Settlers form German areas.
206206853Poor Richard's Almanack...Written by Benjamin Franklin.
206206854Scotch-Irish...Settlers from Ulster.
206206855Great Philadelphia Wagon Road...Best access to the back country.
206206856The custom of men wearing powdered wigs originally came from?...France
206206857Where was growing rice common?...The South
206206858Dame Schools......Village schools in New England
206206859Why did the Middle and Southern colonies lag behind New England when it came to education?...The population was scattered in rural areas
206206860Puritan wanted children to do what, so the emphasized education?...Study the Bible
206206861What was an important native American Food?...Corn
206206862The Scotch-Irish and Germans were......The two largest non-English groups in America
206206863Main reason Scotch-Irish and Germans came to America?...To escape religious intolerance.
206206864Who occupied the lands in the backcountry?...Scotch-Irish and Germans
206206865Who were German immigrants that settled in Pennsylvania?...Pennsylvania Dutch
206206866Why did women in America marry earlier that women in Europe?...There were more men than women
206206867Epidemics were more common in the eighteenth-century colonies because......Crowed cities helped to spread disease.
206206868Infant death rate in the colonies were?...Lower than Europe
206206869The "colonial style" of architecture came from where?...Tudor England
206206870T/F The Great Philadelphia Wagon Road connected the port cities along the coast?False
206206871T/F Few Germans wanted to move to the backcountry?False
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