Colonial Jobs
This was the job of most colonists.
What is farming?
Colonists often traded goods instead of using money. This is called ____.
What is bartering?
Living near the ocean helped New England colonists do this job.
What is shipbuilding or whale hunting?
A product sold to another country is called an ____.
What is an export?
This religious movement spread new ideas in the 1730s and 1740s.
What is the Great Awakening?
These workers made items like tools, candles, or furniture by hand.
Who are artisans?
Name one thing women made or did to help their families survive.
What is making clothes / preparing food / making soap or candles?
These helped Middle Colonies become busy trading centers.
What are deep rivers and sheltered harbors?
A product bought from another country is called an ____.
What is an import?
This preacher believed colonists needed to reconnect with God through fear and warning.
Who is Jonathan Edwards?
This job often set up their businesses next to a river or stream so they could use water power to grind wheat into flour.
Bonus if you could name the machine that grinds wheat into flour!
What is a miller?
Bonus: What is a gristmill?
Children usually began training for a trade around this age.
What is 12?
Colonists built these to control water and create power.
What are dams?
England passed laws to limit colonial trade with other countries. This is called ____.
What is protectionism?
This preacher encouraged strong personal feelings toward God.
Who is George Whitefield?
People who bought and sold goods in port cities like New York and Philadelphia.
Who are merchants?
Colonial children made toys out of these items instead of buying them.
What are scraps, corn husks, rags, or sticks?
Flowing water powered this machine used to make flour.
What is a gristmill?
This trade system formed a triangle between Europe, West Africa, and the Americas.
What is triangular trade?
The Great Awakening weakened the power of these leaders.
Who are church leaders?
Why were colonists able to have different jobs depending on where they lived?
Because the land, climate, and natural resources were different in each colony
Why did colonists make many of their own goods instead of buying them?
Because stores were limited and families had to provide for themselves
How did rivers help colonies grow businesses and communities?
Rivers provided water power for mills and made travel and trade easier
Why did England want the colonies to buy manufactured goods only from England?
To make money and keep the colonies dependent on England
How did the Great Awakening change how colonists viewed authority?
It made people believe they did not need church leaders to tell them how to worship