L1- Working and Trading
L2- Cities, Towns, and Farms
L3- Everyday Life in the Colonies
L4- Slavery in the Colonies
Colonial Firsts
100
What were 5 common jobs for colonial workers?
Any 5- Rope Maker, Blacksmith, carpenter, surgeon, shoemaker, blacksmith, fisherman, cooper, printer, surveyor, miller, merchant, dressmaker, farmer
100
List 2 interesting facts about Eliza Lucas Pinckney. Include her first.
She was a woman running a plantation, she started managing her plantation when she was a teenager, she was from South Carolina, she was the 1st person to successfully raise indigo in the colonies, she studied law, and taught 2 slaves to read.
100
What famous person contributed money to George Whitefield? For what? Why?
Benjamin Franklin gave money to help build an orphanage after hearing Whitefield give a sermon.
100
What rights did slaves have in the North that they didn't have in the South?
Some slaves in the North were allowed to take on extra jobs and night to earn money to buy their freedom.
100
What was John Peter Zenger's occupation? Describe his historical first.
He was a printer. He was arrested for printing negative, but true facts, about New York's governor William Cosby. He was found not guilty because he wrote the truth.
200
What were young people who grew up in cities more likely to do? What were young people who grew up on farms more likely to do?
Many young people in cities became artisans. Many young people on farms, helped their families by doing jobs on the farms.
200
Name 3 of the 5 biggest colonial cities.
Philadelphia, New York, Boston, Charleston, Newport
200
How can you tell that literacy was important in the colonies?
Free schools were established, newspapers were published on a regular basis, families often sat together and listened to people read aloud from books, many families owned the Bible and ""Poor Richard's Almanack"", letter writing helped colonists stay in touch.
200
What were common jobs for slaves in the North?
Most Northern slaves didn't work on farms. Instead slaves in the North worked in stores, in inns, as skilled artisans, and as cooks or servants.
200
What city was Benjamin Franklin from? What city did he move to? How did he help improve this city (give at least two things)?
He was from Boston. He moved to Philadelphia and set up the city's first newspaper, public library, hospital, and volunteer fire department.
300
What was the Middle Passage? Why did it make a big impact on our history?
One leg of the Triangular Trade Route where slaves were taken from West Africa to the West Indies. Slavery was a huge part of the economy in the 13 colonies. Many African slaves died on the voyage.
300
Name 3 reasons that Colonial Life was harder than life today.
Possible Answers- People had to make their own food like bread and butter. If they wanted light they had to make candles. You had to travel far to trade or visit people. Communication took longer. People had to move to different cities to find jobs.
300
List 3 ways colonial schools were different from modern schools?
Schools had just one room. Students of different grades and ages studied together. Students only learned basics of reading, writing, and arithmetic. Students left school earlier. There was harsher physical discipline.
300
What are laws that colonists passed to make it harder for slaves to escape?
Slaves weren't allowed to travel or go on a ship without written permission. Many Southern Colonies also banned the use or drums, banjos, and other instruments.
300
What firsts were Boston, Massachusetts and Williamsburg, Virginia involved in?
The first colleges were there. Harvard was near Boston and the College of William and Mary was in Williamsburg.
400
What were Triangular Trade Routes? Where did they go between? What were 4 things traded on these routes?
A series of ocean trade routes that went between the 13 Colonies, the West Indies, West Africa, and England. They traded gold, slaves, guns, sugar, molasses, rum, timber, grain, cash crops, iron products, manufactured goods.
400
Why were colonial towns self-sufficient?
They had small plots of land to grow crops, grazing land for animals, and workers such as millers, blacksmith, shoemakers, and coopers.
400
What were 3 activities that colonial kids did during their limited free time?
Dancing, hide and seek, tag games, climbing trees, swimming, flying kites, ice-skating, and sledding.
400
What were 3 things slaves did to resist slavery?
Slaves worked extra jobs to buy their freedom, attempted to escape, worked slowly, broke tools, pretended to be sick, and sometimes tried to start rebellions.
400
What first were Jewish colonists involved in? Where did this happen?
The first synagogue in the colonies was built in Newport, Rhode Island.
500
Describe the economies of the 3 colonial regions. Which region do you think did the most important work? Why?
New England Colonies- Timber used for barrels, houses, and ships. Fish and whales from the ocean. Middle Colonies- farming wheat and mining iron.
500
Would you rather live in a Colonial city or a plantation? List two pieces of positive evidence and 2 pieces of negative evidence from our discussions and text book to back up your choice.
Various Answers
500
What movement was George Whitefield invoved in? How did this movement spread? What were some effects of this movement on the colonies?
The Great Awakening. The message was spread by traveling preachers giving outside sermons. Colonist's interest in religion was revived, new colleges were established, and people were inspired to help others.
500
Would you rather be a slave in the North of in the South? Why? Give at least two pieces of positive evidence and one piece of negative evidence from the book and from our discussions to back up your answer.
Various answers.
500
What event in the colonies do you think was the most important turning point? Why?
Possible answers- Zenger's Freedom of the Press verdict, the start of slavery, growing indigo, ex slaves writing books about their experiences, free public schools, the Great Awakening, Benjamin Franklin's Philadelphia firsts
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