COLONIAL AMERICA

A WIDE, WIDE OCEAN TO CROSS

• The food and clothes got wet while traveling.
• The word Pilgrim means someone who goes on a long journey
• No one knows thats the pilgrims landed on Plymouth Rock but it was most logical to land
• In 1620, 101 passengers left England and traveled for two months, for freedom
• They landed on a rock called Plymouth in Massachuttes.

WHAT, WHERE, AND WHO WAS COLONIAL AMERICA

• When the Europeans first arrived they had no shelter.
• When the Europeans came to America, the Native Americans brought gifts.
• They had to eat wild berries.
• They had 13 colonies in America and they first came into Virginia in 1607.

THE PILGRIMS LIVED ON

• Pilgrims mixed wild daisies and animal fat, as medicine for a cut
• Inside the pilgrims houses there was a fireplace to keep them warm and too cook but,
• Not a lot of funiture, they used wood planks as a table
• Pilgrims houses were small and had no glass windows so they covered with cloth

THE RISE & FALL AND RISE OF COLONIAL WILLIAMSBURG

• In 1758 George Washington was elected to become president
• The pilgrims main animals were oxen,sheep,horses,pigs, and fowl
• Everybody wore wigs , that showed how wealthy they were.
• Many people who lived in Williamsburg had small estates with lovely houses,outbuildings, and
• Back yard gardens

COLONIAL KIDS

• Children back then had few toys, most of them were homemade
• The toys were made by carving them or making them with corn rose
• The kids played with a doll rich kids had imported dolls.
• Boys used there knifes to cut toys out of wood

HEARTH&HOME

• Most colonial women made their family's clothing
• Birds had to be plucked, and bread was baked to make dinner
• Heating got chilly at night and they had to heat the sheets on a pan
• They handmade a lot of different things inside their own homes

BUSINESS OF AMERICA

• In 1770 Paul Revere made a famous engraving of the Boston Massacre
• Paul Revere made the first copper mill in America.
• Paul Revere had many accomplishments
• Early America all buildings and woodworking had to be done by hand

THANKSGIVING

• The Governor invited Indians to join the pilgrims,
• To give thanks for a plentiful food season.
• The very first Thanksgiving was at Plymouth Rock, year:1621

FUN FACTS!

• Mercy Otis wrote plays making fun of the Bristish Officials
• Children who misbehaved got got a whipping and paddling
• Teacher would split a branch in half and put it between their nose
• 2 babies were born on the ship from England to America and 1 person died
• Pocahontas successfully pleaded with her father not to kill captain John S

WORKS CITED

• All pictures from Haiku Deck