Life
Three examples of raw materials.
What are wood, metal, wool.
These people ground wheat into flour at a mill.
What is a miller?
He was was an inventor, printer, and the author of Poor Richard's Almanac.
Who was Benjamin Franklin?
How families had food all year.
They dried it?
If a Conestoga Wagon needed to be rescued in the mud, the drivers usually gave these to their rescuers.
What are bells?
The first job a family had to do to start a farm in colonial Pennsylvania.
Clear the land?
A place where a settled region ends and wilderness begins.
What is a frontier?
A book about weather, oceans and tides.
What is an almanac?
These used mules to transport goods.
What are pack trains?
The easiest and cheapest way to travel (long distances) during colonial times.
What is by water (boat or ship)?
How colonial families get the clothes that they wore.
Women made them from flax or wool?
Someone who built wooden frames for houses.
What is a carpenter?
A young boy that lives with a craftsman to learn a trade
This is a place where farmers took their grain to be ground into flour.
What was a gristmill?
This person received the first patent in US history.
Who was Sybilla Masters?
One of the most challenging jobs that women had
What is cooking?
These people heated and hammered iron bars into tools.
What is a blacksmith?
A person who buys goods and sells them to other people who need them.
What is a merchant?
In order to get the services colonists needed (if they didn't have money) they did this.
What is traded or bartered?
The result of the creation of post roads.
The beginning of the post office.
How did the roles of men and women differ during colonial times?
Men did the heavy work outside and women worked
closer to home.
These people made shoes.
What is a cobbler?
These people sewed clothes from fabric.
What is a tailor?
The way farmers got the tools and goods that they needed.
They went to town and bought them?
Dollar bills are nicknamed "bucks" because they are named after:
What are deerskins?