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Being a kid ain't easy
North vs South
Show me the Benjamins
A Day in the Life
Slavery
100
Another name for a skilled worker.
What is an artisan?
100
The breadbasket of the colonies.
What is the Middle Colonies? BONUS: Why were they called the breadbasket?
100
Benjamin Franklin started many of our important institutions in America. Name them.
What are the post office, public library, volunteer fire department, and hospital?
100
Colonial Kids were schooled in this.
What is a one room school house?
100
Slaves brought many skills over from Africa and often worked in towns as...
What are artisans?
200
Name the advantage of being an apprentice.
What is being taught a trade so they could become artisans?
200
These crops were grown in the South
What are cotton, tobacco and indigo?
200
This building was always the center of life in New England.
What is the meeting house? BONUS: What kind of activities took place there?
200
Benjamin Franklin Wrote this, the most widely read book in the colonies.
What is Poor Richard's Almanac?
200
Laws in the North prohibited slaves from traveling unless they had this.
What is written permission?
300
What are the disadvantages of being an apprenctice?
What are long hours, hard work and rarely having a day off?
300
Farming was not king in these colonies. They would rather fish, trap fur and cut down trees.
What are the New England colonies?
300
This was one of the functions of the small Middle Colonies towns.
What is to serve as busy market places?
300
Colonists traveled to America in search of this.
What is religious freedom?
300
Slaves worked here doing this.
What is worked on plantations as farm laborours, artisans and servants in the master's house?
400
Colonists could work in these job fields.
What are shoemakers, blacksmiths,coopers, printers, surveyors, millers, merchants, dressmakers?
400
Describe the triangulr trade route.
What is the movement of iron and manufactured products to Africa and the colonies, slaves and gold from Africa to the colonies, timber grainas
400
Plantations in the South were similar to the towns of the North because they were this.
What is self sufficient?
400
These were the main foods eaten by colonial people.
What are stews with fish or meat, corn bread, corn pudding or corn pancakes and ice cream, donuts and fruit pies?
400
Slaves kept African culture alive in these ways.
What is making drums, banjos and other instruments which they used to send messages to each other?
500
This was one of the great opportunities that a surgeon's apprentice got to do.
What is holding down patients during operations? (they also got to hold the instruments)
500
Northern colonies had small towns that were this.
What is selfsufficient?
500
Eliza Lucas Pickney made this crop profitable for South Carolina.
What is indigo?
500
This is a reference book with facts and figures.
What is an almanac?
500
Slaves resisted owners by...
What is tricking owners and overseers by workinfg slowly, breaking tools or pretending to be sick and escaping from Slave owners?