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100
What is someone who moved in with the family of a skilled worker and helped in the family's business for several years?
What is an apprentice.
100
What are two uses for the meetinghouse?
What is a house of worship and a place of government for town meetings.
100
What were most early plantations built near?
What is waterways.
100
Where would farmers trade their farm produce for goods and services?
What is market town.
100
What is a place where the land drops sharply, which causes a waterfall?
What is a fall line.
200
Who is someone who is paid to buy and sell for someone else?
What is a broker?
200
Where is male land owners take part in government areas such as making decisions about laws?
What is town meetings.
200
What trail became important to the settlement of the backcountry?
What is Great Wagon Road.
200
What were young girls of the plantation supposed to do?
What is learn to read and sew with their needle.
200
What is a volunteer army?
What is a militia.
300
Who is a person who agreed to work for another person without pay for a certain length of time?
What is an indentured servent.
300
What is a part of the house between the ceiling and the roof?
What is loft.
300
What three places did the triangular trade route connect?
What is Britain, British Colonies, and Africa.
300
What did owners on plantations trade with?
What is crops.
300
What are goods to be sold to other countries?
What are exports.
400
Who owned most of the plantations in the south?
What is a planter.
400
List 4 out the 5 duties of the planter.
What is plant crops, harvest, store, ship, and record.
400
What were the boundaries of the backcountry?
What is between the Coastal Plain and the Appalachian Mountains.
400
What were two duties of the planter wife?
What is clothe and feed.
400
What are 4 out of 5 exports of the british colonies?
What is dried fish, furs, indigo, rice, tobacco, and lumber.
500
Who did wealthy planters have work on regular large plantations?
What is enslaved africans.
500
What were the three industries from people making their living from the sea to help Atlantic cities to grow?
What is fishing, whaling, and shipbuilding.
500
What is the main town for each county?
What is county seat.
500
What did young boys of the plantation do?
What is went to college in Britian or the colonies.
500
What are 4 out of 5 imports of the British colonies?
What are books, clothing, lace, machinery, shoes, thread, and tools.