Colonial Life:

http://www.history.com/topics/thirteen-colonies/videos#deconstructed-mayflower

and life in Jamestown

video/pics of 1628 plymouth colony

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/colonialhouse/media/index.html

jamestown colonial life:

http://www.havefunwithhistory.com/movies/earlySettlers.html

puritan lifehttp://www.havefunwithhistory.com/movies/puritanFamily.html

Ch. 3: The Colonial “Diet”I. Diet of the "Commoners"A. Meal Times:

1. Breakfast: early if you were poor, later if you were wealthy porridge (often cooked all night) bread and milk (or corn meal mush/molasses) beer or cider (bacteria free)

2. Dinner (lunch)

your biggest meal bread, meat, greens, stews, pudding, cheese beer or cider (bacteria free)

3. supper (dinner): light often like breakfast (warmed over) "gruel" of oats or cornmeal (similar to oatmeal) beer or cider (bacteria free)

B. Staples:

-salt pork-breads (corn, wheat)-corn meal-Indian beans-veggies: corn, onions, artichokes, carrots, turnips, cabbages, beets, pumpkins-apples/peaches/raisins/currants/plums/grapes/berries-wild game (deer, rabbits, turkey, pheasant/duck/geese, squirrel)-fish and shellfish (if close to coast)-beer-chowders of NE area: fish and potatoes

C. Luxuries:

Fish, tarts/cakes, butter, spices, sugar, coffee, tea, chocolate, and alcoholic beverages other than beer (brandy made from fruits, rum imported)

Ch. 3-4: Colonial “Education”*Protestant Reformation impact: every man have free access to the Wordpurpose of education: be able to read the Bible

*The home was the primary schoolhouse

*Girls usually pursued education in the home--preparing for home life (not allowed to go to grammar schools or college)

*School usually "in session" in the winter months (between plantings and harvest)

*Learn the alphabet: The "Hornbook"

*Grammar/Vocab/Moral Lessons/Catechism (Q & A): the New England Primer (first published in 1690)

*Wealthy Children:Tutors/Dame Schools-->Grammar Schools (communities of 100 families)-->College (often back to Europe)

*Other Sources of Teaching:Travelers, Indentured Servants/Missionaries

*Rural: one room schoolhouses in middle of roads

Colleges in Colonial America: Harvard College (1636):

begun by Puritans to train clergy William and Mary (1693): Anglican Yale (1701): begun by Puritans to train clergy Princeton (1746): Presbyterian Univ. of Penn. (1754): secular King's College (Columbia) 1754: Anglican Brown (1764): Baptist Rutgers (1766): Dutch Reformed Dartmouth (1769): Congregational