Farmers could trade their crops for goods and services here which was helpful to them.
What is a market town?
100
Were an important part of the British colonies.
What is exports and imports?
100
Hunters went to sea to kill them and then returned to ports to sell the items made out of the materials.
What is whale products?
100
Most of the land in the southern colonies was owned by them.
What is planters?
200
In most New England towns members of the communities grew or made most of what they needed.
What are self-sufficient communities?
200
A place in market towns were imports, or goods brought into the colonies from other countries, were sold.
What is a general store?
200
raw materials such as dried fish, furs, indigo, rice, tobacco, lumber
What is important exports for the British colonies?
200
traveled to America by ship that was paid for by a planter or other business owner. This led to an agreement that they would work for another person without pay for a certain length of time, but then were free.
What is an indentured servant?
200
Southern plantations were normally built by them.
What is along waterways?
300
Two of the most important town workers in New England Towns.
What is a herder and constable?
300
An economic activity that contributed to the growth of cities along the Atlantic coast.
What is important imports for the British colonies?
300
Transported by ship from Africa to the colonies in North America, but were not given their freedom after a certain length of time. Their labor helped and allowed wealthy planters to do the work required on large plantations.
What is African slaves?
300
Southern plantation owners used it instead of money.
What is crops?
400
A group of men and boys of the town that gathered on the common to train and drill at least once a year.
What is the town's militia?
400
Were young people who lived in cities that learned to do jobs that required special skills by moving in with the family of a skilled worker and helped in the family's business for several years.
What is an apprentice?
400
The reason for most colonial cities to locate along the Atlantic coast.
What is trade?
400
Was important to the settlement of the backcountry.
What is the Great Wagon Road?
400
Planters often sold their farm products through them.
What is British brokers?
500
To make decisions about laws and town workers.
What is the purpose of a town meeting?
500
Routes that linked Britain, the British colonies, and Africa as the three points of great trading on the Atlantic.
What is the triangular trade routes?
500
Shipped from the colonies to Britain
What is raw materials?
500
The land between the Coastal Plain and the Applacian Mountains.
What is backcountry?
500
They learned to read and sew which is the best description for the education they received.