Dress a Colonist

After doing the activity list the 8 pieces of clothing a typical Colonial woman would have worn.

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The Price of Freedom

Read through the Choose Your Own Adventure as a Colonial Slave. What did you have to do to become free?

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The Apprentice's Life

Many young men became apprentices of different trades. You will need to read through several pages of the Choose Your Own Adventure for these answers.

10. At what age does the apprenticeship end?
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11. Do apprentices have to attend school?
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12. What happened if you didn't like the trade you were studying?
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13. What trade did you choose for the contract?
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14. How long was the contract?
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15. What would be the cost of your freedom?
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Keeping the Best of Company

Click through the activities on the left side of the screen to learn more about them.

16. Which of the activities would be interesting to learn?
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17. Which activity would be the worst to learn?
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18. What would be awful about it?
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Dressing the Part

Different classes of people wore different types of clothing.

19. What did you notice about how field slaves dressed compared to free working slaves?
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20. The Gentry woman wore how many layers of clothes?
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21. What would be difficult about wearing so many clothes?
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Women in Colonial Trades

Scroll WAY down and to click on the Slideshow WOMEN IN TRADES

22. Which of the trades do you think would have been interesting to learn?
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23. What tools did a person of that trade use?
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24. Which trade would have been the hardest work?
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25. What would be hard about it?
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