A young person who learns a skill from a more experienced person.
What is an apprentice?
100
Relying on one's self for most of what one needs.
What is self-reliant?
100
The first person in the 13 colonies to raise a successful crop of indigo.
What is Elizas Lucas Pinckney?
100
What type of school did children in the 13 colonies attend?
What is one-room schoolhouses?
200
A skilled worker who makes things by hand.
What is an artisan?
200
This took place when slaves clashed with their owners near a river is South Carolina?
What is the Stono Rebellion?
200
Because this region milled flour, it was known as the breadbasket of the colonies.
What is the Middle Colonies?
200
Where were most slaves found in Southern colonies?
What is on a plantation?
200
Describe a common meal of the colonists.
What is stew made of fish or meat with vegetables, ice cream, donuts, fruit pies, bread, puddings and pancakes?
300
The second part of a three-part journey.
What is the Middle Passage?
300
Reference books with facts and figures.
What is an almanac?
300
Name the advantages and disadvantages of being an apprentice.
What is learned a skill (advantage) and had to work long hours, rarely getting a day off (disadvantage)?
300
Daily Double:
Describe a new England town and tell its most important building?
What is self-reliant and the meeting house?
300
Oldest college in the U.S.A.?
What is Harvard?
400
The open space where sheep and cattle could graze in a town.
What is the town common?
400
A trade route from New England to West Africa to the West Indies and back to South Carolina.
What is the triangular trade route?
400
Name some jobs of colonists?
What is a shoemaker, blacksmith, fisherman, cooper, printer, surveyor, miller, merchant, and dressmaker?
400
Name the two most popular books in the 13 colonies.
What is the Bible and Poor Richard's Almanac?
400
He traveled troughout the colonies collecting money to build orphanages?
Who is George Whitefield?
500
This caused many colonists to become interested in religion once again and to help others.
What is the Great Awakening?
500
Daily Double:
What was daily life like for colonial children?
What is some children in towns or cities attended one-romm schools. By their teens, most worked on family farms or as apprentices. Free time was spent on chores or simple games and sports?
500
New England economy was based on this.
What is products from the forest and the sea.
500
Name 4 things Benjamin Franklin started in the city of Philapelphia.
What is a volunteer fire department, a newspaper, a public library and a hospital?