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a young person who learns a skill from a more experienced person.
What is an Apprentice?
100
Economy based on products from forest and sea.
What are the New England colonies?
100
Made Shoes from leather and wood
What is a Shoemaker?
100
Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Charleston
What were thriving trading centers?
100
Caught cod and other fish in the Atlantic Ocean.
What is a Fisherman?
200
Cooking and Sewing
What are skills learned by young girls?
200
Economy based on farm products and valuable minerals
What are the middle colonies?
200
Made Clothes from woven materials
What is a Dressmaker?
200
Ships brought captive Africans to the colonies.
What is the Slave trade?
200
Trains an apprentice in a particular skill.
What is an Artisan?
300
Gathering wood, serving food, helping in the garden
What are jobs given to young children living on a farm.
300
Economy based on farming?
What are the southern colonies?
300
Printed posters, newspapers, and books.
What is a Printer?
300
The second leg of a trading voyage.
What is the "Middle Passage"?
300
Traded goods with England and other countries.
What is a Merchant?
400
hunting, chopping wood, helping in the field
What are jobs given to older boys on a farm?
400
Tobacco, rice, and indigo.
What are common cash crops of the southern colonies?
400
Made barrels from wood and iron.
What is a Cooper?
400
trade routes shaped like a giant triangle
What is a Triangular Trade Route?
400
Ran mills where colonists could grind corn and wheat into flour.
What is a Miller?
500
Helping make household objects like soap, candles, clothing, and food.
What are jobs given to older girls on a farm?
500
powered by running water or wind
What are Mills in the middle colonies?
500
Made maps and marked boundaries.
What is a Surveyor?
500
hunger, thirst, disease, and cruel treatment
What are some of the ways captive Africans died during trading?
500
Made and repaired iron goods, such as horse shoes, axes, nails, and gun parts.
What is a Blacksmith?