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Vocabulary
Colonial Life
Who Does What Job?
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Colonial Travel and Trade
100
Where a settled region ends and the wilderness begins
What is the Frontier
100
Since farmers grew everything they needed, cooking in colonial times was very EASY or DIFFICULT
What is difficult
100
They built wooden frames for houses
Who are carpenters
100
Who taught children on farms
Who are their parents or traveling teachers
100
What was more expensive and difficult, traveling by LAND or WATER?
What is land
200
This man was a printer, inventor, author, Postmaster General
Who is Benjamin Franklin
200
A family on the frontier needed to do this before anything else
What is clear the land
200
They heated and hammered iron into tools
Who are blacksmiths
200
What is a merchant
Who is someone who buys and sells goods
200
In order to get what they needed, colonists would sometimes do what?
What is barter or trade
300
A young boy who lives with a craftsman and learns a trade
What is an Apprentice
300
What role did women have on the colonial farm
What is garden, clean, take care of house, make clothes, etc.
300
They sewed clothes into fabric
Who are tailors
300
Why do we call dollars "bucks"
What is people used to use deerskin as money-something that has worth
300
What were post roads?
What are roads built between cities to carry the mail
400
This is where grain was ground into flour
What is a Gristmill
400
How did most farmers get the tools they needed?
What is traveled to a town and buy them
400
They made shoes
Who are cobblers
400
What county was called the "Breadbasket of America"?
What is Lancaster County
400
What would a Conestoga Wagon driver give to someone if they got stuck and were rescued?
What are bells
500
She was the first American to get a patent from the King of England to mill corn
Who is Sybilla Masters
500
How did families get the clothes they wore?
What is the women made them out of wool or flax
500
They ground wheat into flour
Who are millers
500
A book of weather, temperature, and precipitation was called what?
What is an almanac
500
Mules were used to ship goods by what method?
What are pack trains