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Working and Trading
Cities, Towns & Farms
Colonial Life
Slavery in Colonies
Lagniappe
100
A worker skilled at making things by hand
What is an artisan?
100
Who helped Philadelphia become a successful city?
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
100
In Europe many people were treated badly because of what?
What is religious beliefs.
100
This person wrote a book in 1789 about how slavery was wrong.
Who is Olaudah Equiano?
100
Who started the first library, newspaper, hospital, and volunteer fire department in Philadelphia?
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
200
The middle part of a slave's journey from Africa to the Americas.
What is the Middle Passage?
200
Able to take care of oneself without help.
What is being self-sufficient?
200
This movement got many colonists interested in religion again.
What is the Great Awakening?
200
An event in 1739 in which enslaved people fought with slave owners.
What is the Stono Rebellion.
200
What is the oldest college established in the United States, near Boston?
What is Harvard?
300
The Middle Colonies were called "the breadbasket of the colonies", because they grew so much what?
What is wheat?
300
What is the most important building in New England towns?
What was a meeting house?
300
Who was the leader of the Great Awakening movement?
Who is George Whitefield?
300
Which region of slaves had more chances to buy their freedom?
What is slaves from the north?
300
What was the thriving trade center of the South?
What was Charleston
400
On the triangular trade route, what did ships bring to West Africa?
What are guns and other goods?
400
What three popular cash crops did Southern plantations grow?
What are tobacco, rice, and indigo?
400
One of the most popular books was by Benjamin Franklin, and was called?
What is Poor Richard's Almanack?
400
Where did most Southern slaves work?
What are Southern plantations?
400
Eliza Lucas Pickney helped South Carolina became successful at growing what crop?
What is indigo?
500
What were Africans traded for in the West Indies?
What are sugar and molasses?
500
These people gave orders to slaves, and sometimes beat them if they did not follow orders.
Who are overseers?
500
What three foods were the produce of corn for the colonists?
What are bread, pudding, and pancakes?
500
How could northern slaves buy their freedom?
What is by earning money at night?
500
Who was arrested for printing his political views in the "New-York Weekly Journal?"
Who is John Peter Zenger?