Vocabulary
Working and Trading
Cities, Towns, & Farms
Everyday Life
Miscellaneous
100
An ____________ is a young person who learns a skill from a more experienced person.
apprentice
100
List 3 jobs that boys worked on the farms.
hunted chopped firewood worked in fields
100
This was an open space where cattle and sheep could graze in a town.
town common
100
Why did many of the colonists want to leave Europe?
escape religious persecution
100
Why is it called a "triangular" trade route?
the routes were shaped like giant triangles
200
Artisans are _______ __________. Some artisans who make things by hand are rope makers, blacksmiths, surgeons, or carpenters.
skilled workers
200
Girls who worked on farms had household jobs such as....
cooking sewing making soap & candles
200
Name the most important building in a town.
meeting house
200
Name the most popular book for entertainment in the 13 colonies.
Poor Richard's Almanac
200
Benjamin Franklin arrived to this city which was known as a growing city with a diverse population in 1723.
Philadelphia
300
Many New England towns were _______-___________, meaning they relied on themselves for most of what they needed.
self-sufficient
300
The New England economy was based on products (such as fish, wood, ships, furs) from these two places.
forests sea
300
Southern ________________ were large farms where cash crops such as tobacco, rice and indigo were grown and were owned by wealthy land-owners (planters).
plantations
300
Today, we use the phone and email to communicate. How did they communicate during colonial times?
writing letters
300
The most common trade route, which carried guns and other goods were traded for gold and captive Africans. It began in New England and sailed to what country?
West Africa
400
Who established a newspaper, hospital, and library in Philadelphia in the mid-1700's?
Benjamin Franklin
400
The _______________ Colonies grew so much wheat that they became known as "the breadbasket of the colonies."
Middle Colonies
400
The day-to-day work on a plantation was directed by the plantation manager, known as the _______________ and gave slaves orders.
overseer
400
Most children had little free time to play because instead they spent a lot of time doing what?
working/doing chores
400
The New England trade route sailed to the ___________ ________________ which was the second part of the voyage.
Middle Passage
500
A group of enslaved people fought with slave owners near the Stono River in South Carolina in 1739. What was this known as?
Stono Rebellion
500
Name three cash crops from the Southern Colonies.
tobacco rice indigo
500
Some children in cities or towns attended schools with only one _____.
room
500
This religious movement began in the 1730's and revived or "awakened" many colonists' interest in religion.
Great Awakening
500
This person was enslaved at a young age, but later gained his freedom. He wrote a book about his life and published it in 1789. His book demanded that readers think about the evils of slavery. He says "Surely this... violates (breaks) that first natural right of mankind, equality and independency."
Olaudah Equiano
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