Colonial Jobs
Someone who made clothes
Who is a tailor?
A person who made shoes during colonial times
Who is a cobbler?
9 out of 10 people in Pennsylvania had this job.
Foods eaten during colonial times
What is butter, bread, biscuits, pies, dried fruit, deer/turkey meat, and vegetables?
create a sentence with the past tense of the word swim
swam
Someone who made nails, horseshoes, tools, and equipment out of iron and steel.
Who is a blacksmith?
Pennsylvania's Lancaster County had this nickname
What is the breadbasket of America?
Jobs of the men and women during colonial times
What are the women worked on making food, making clothes, in-charge of the garden, washing clothes, spinning wool, and making soap and candles. The men built the log cabins, planted crops, heavy outside work, and hunting.
create a sentence with the past participle of the word fly
Has/have/had flown
A person who made barrels.
Who is a cooper?
A person who made wagon wheels.
Who is a wheelwright?
What is because the colonists used deerskin as money?
3 ways children had fun during colonial times
What are playing marbles, pick-up sticks, hopscotch, corn-husk dolls, tag, & hide and seek?
create a sentence with a comparative adjective
er,est, more, most
A person who made clothing, saddles and belts out of leather.
Who is a tanner?
A silversmith
Who is a person who made dishes, forks, spoons, and tools out of pewter or silver?
What are the packtrain and the Conestoga Wagon?
When a boy was 12 years old, he would live with a craftsman for 6 years for on the job training, and this was called
What is being an apprentice?
create sentence with the past participle of eat
have/has/had eaten
A person who made medicine out of herbs.
Who is an apothecary?
Benjamin Franklin's dad's trade/job
What is a soap and candle maker?
2 items that we sent to England and 2 items England exported to the colonies
What are the colonists sent out wheat, beaver skins, lumber and tobacco. England exported tea, cotton, silk, iron tools, china and furniture.
2 famous writings that made Benjamin Franklin famous
What are the Pennsylvania Gazette and the Farmer's Almanac?
create a sentence with the past participle of the word forget
has, have, had forgotten