What are rarely a day off or not much time to rest or spend with your family.
100
Some jobs available to English colonists. Name 4
What were shoemaker, blacksmith, seasmtress, cooper, miller, engineer?
100
Characteristics of colonial towns.
What are the towns were self-sufficient?
100
This is a description of slavery in the south.
What is slaves worked on the plantations?
100
Benjamin Franklin founded these things in the city of Philadelphia.
What are libraries, a fire station and a hospital?
200
This is a description of the triangular trade route.
What is a voyage with two stops before returning home.
200
The middle colonies were known as the "breadbasket of the colonies" because of this.
What is they milled flour and shipped it to the other colonies.
200
School was like this in the colonies.
What is all grades were in one room, it was hard?
200
Slaves contributed this to society during colonial times.
What is they had a lot of skills that contributed to life on the plantation?
200
Many of the colonists wanted to leave Europe for this reason.
What is to escape religious persecution.
300
The most important building in a colonial New England town.
What is the meeting hall/house?
300
These were cash crops of the souther colonies.
What are tobacco, indigo, rice and grains?
300
The city of Philadelphia and Benjamin Franklin helped each other in this way.
What is he had to go to a big city to be a printer, so he went to Philadelphia. While in Philadelphia he founded hospitals, fire departments and libraries?
300
This helped keep the slaves African culture alive.
What is drums, banjos and other instruments.
300
One of the most popular books in the 13 colonies.
What is Poor Richard's Almanac?
400
Some of the most common foods in the colonies.
What are bread, apple pie, fish stew with vegetables?
400
These were grown on a Southern plantation.
What are rice, tobacco and indigo?
400
Towns were like this in colonial New England.
What is families owned small plots of land and people worked as artisans? The meetinghouse was the most important place in town.
400
These were ways slaves resisted slavery.
What is they pretended to be sick and they tried to run away?
400
This was how daily life was like for colonial children.
What is they had to go to school, but had little time to play. By their teens most children worked on farms or as apprentices?
500
This is how colonists in the New England Colonies used trees.
What is timber was exported to England. The wood was used to build houses, ships and barrels?
500
This is the main reason some children became apprentices and others worked on family farms.
What is children who grew up in cities were more likely to become apprentices than children who grew up on farms?
500
Ways we communicate today similar to and different from those in colonial times.
What is we stay in contact with people whom live far way from us? What is we use envelopes, phone and e-mail to communicate?
500
This is why laws were passed that denied slaves many rights.
What is slaves were considered property, their owners wanted to restrict their freedoms so they would be less likely to escape?
500
This is how Olaudah Equiano felt about slavery.
What is he despised it? He believed slavery violated a person's natural rights.