Vocab1
A person who owns a business or property is known as?
What is a proprietor?
A product brought into a country to be sold.
What is an import?
This is where most families lived and worked during Colonial times.
What is the farm? (90 percent lived in rural areas)
Which of the following is not one of the original colonies? (California, Pennsylvania, New York)
What is California?
What is showing much variety, whether it is in people, places, or things?
What is being diverse?
Resources that are used to create manufactured goods. (example: the lumber used to build a ship)
What is a raw material?
How did the natural resources and the climate, determine what the colonists grew and what they did for work?
climate determines what crops can grow. Natural resources determined what jobs could be done. (ex. New England colonies used the ocean which was their greatest resource.)
This is the largest social class that most colonist belonged to.
What is the middle class?
To trade goods and services for other goods or services without using money.
What is bartering?
A worker skilled in a trade usually done by hand.
Who is an artisan?
Name the three regions that the colonies were split into.
Why are artisans and other craftsman important during colonial time?
This is a time before machines. This means that people needed skilled workers in
This is a societal group, consisting of upper, middle, and lower.
What is a class?
A product sent from your country, to be sold in another.
What is an export?
What caused conflict between colonists and Native Americans?
Use of resources, taking of land.
Why would the freedom of religion be important to colonists?
DAILY DOUBLE!!!!!!!!!
Answers will vary.
An economic idea in which it is better to limit your imports and increase your exports. (make more then you spend)
What is mercantilism?
Trade route between Africa, The Americas, and Europe, in which ships carried cash crops, slaves, and manufactured goods.
What is the triangular trade?
What is the difference between imports and exports?
Imports are goods brought from other countries to be sold. Exports are goods made in your country and are meant to be sold for prof
What is climate? How does it determine what can be grown in a region?
Weather over a long period of time.
Certain crops only grow in certain climates.