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100
This building could be used as a church or as a place of government
What is a meetinghouse?
100
This route linked Britain, the British colonies and Africa.
What is the triangular trade route?
100
The earliest plantations were built along these areas
What is along waterways?
100
Frontier children slept here, the part of the house between the ceiling and the roof.
What is the loft?
100
Name a business you might find in a Market Town.
What is a general store, a shoe cobbler store, blacksmith's shop, or a saw or gristmill?
200
In this colonial area, farmers could trade their crops for goods and services.
What is the market town?
200
These are goods made or grown in the colonies, that would be sold in other countries.
What are exports?
200

This is the name of the owner of a plantation.

What is a planter?

200

This home was very common in the colonial frontier area

What is a log cabin?

200
This volunteer army often trained in the town common.
What is a militia?
300
Many small colonial towns were in this area of the country.
What is New England?
300
This person lived with the family of a skilled worker and helped in the family business for several years, in order to learn a skill.
What is an apprentice?
300

Slaves were kidnapped and taken from this place

What is Africa?

300
Frontier families made almost everything they needed, such as (Name 2 things they would have had to make)
What is their own clothes, soap, candles, butter, etc. ?
300

Name a colonial job that someone in a town or city might hold.

What is a cobbler, tailor, cooper, blacksmith, printer, etc.

400
Goods brought into the colonies from other countries are also known as this.
What are imports?
400
These 3 towns quickly grew into cities in the colonial days.
What are New York City, Philadelphia, and Charleston?
400
This is a person who agreed to work for another person without pay for a certain length of time.
What is an indentured servant?
400
This old Indian trail took settlers to the backcountry.
What is the the Great Wagon Road?
400
This man was a famous frontiersman who wanted to settle in back of the thirteen colonies.
Who is Daniel Boone?
500
Name three things that were imported into Market Towns.
What are tea, sugar, spices, cloth, shoes, buttons, etc. ?
500
Besides trading, name a job that a city colonist may have had that had to do with living near the sea.
What is being a fisherman, a whaler, or a shipbuilder?
500
Name two ways African slaves kept their African heritage alive.
What is told stories and sang songs?
500
The land between the Coastal Plain and this mountain range was known as the back country.
What are the Applachian Mountains?
500
Daughters of planters were often taught only these two things.
What is to read and to sew?