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Colonial Society
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Social Studies
8th Grade
04/19/2013

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What are the 3 social classes?
Definition
The Gentry
The Middle Class
Indentured Servants
Term
What are 2 roles that the men had?
Definition
Everyone in family respected the man's authority
Where the family's income
If men were not farmers, they worked as carpenters, coopers, butchers, wheelwrights, or in other trades.
Held all of the political office
Term
What are 2 roles that the women had?
Definition
Expected to marry men their parents chose
When a women got married everything she owned became her husband's property.
Cooked, did the laundry, and made clothes with yarn.
took care of the garden milked the cows, tended the chickens, churned the butter, and preserved the food.
In rich families she would help the servants
Child care took most of her time
Not allowed to vote
Term
How old did the children have to be to start working?
Definition
7 years old
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Who held office in the colony and why?
Definition
Men, because they had more say than the women and were thought to be better.
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