Colonial America

Question 0

What jobs did they have during colonial times?

Answer 0

cooper, surveyor, miner, farmer, merchant, artisan, apothecary, blacksmith

Question 1

What were the advantages and disadvantages of being an apprentice?

Answer 1

Advantages: Learning a skill, training with an expert, becoming an artisan
Disadvantages: rarely having time off, not paid much

Question 2

What were the regions know for?

Answer 2

NEC: fish, towns and cities, ships, oil, timber
MC: breadbasket, grain, livestock, farms, wheat, iron, fur
SC: plantations, rice, tobacco, indigo, rural, slavery

Question 3

What cash crops were there in the Southern Colonies?

Answer 3

Rice, tobacco, and indigo

Question 4

What was the most important place in a NE town? Why?

Answer 4

Meeting house because that was were they worshiped and had meetings.

Question 5

What characteristics did most colonial towns share?

Answer 5

Self-sufficient

Question 6

What were the schools like in colonial times?

Answer 6

No desks, just benches, all ages together in 1 room, they learned reading, writing, and behavior

Question 7

What books and newspapers were used during colonial times?

Answer 7

Boston Newsletter, horn books, and the Bible

Question 8

What foods were common during colonial times?

Answer 8

Fish, vegetables, pudding, corn, pies, soup, meat, wheat, squash, rice, and beans

Question 9

What was slave life like in the Northern colonies compared to the Southern colonies?

Answer 9

SC: worked on plantations, African slaves, mostly farming, taught colonists to grow rice
NC: could earn money with extra jobs at night, worked in towns or cities

Question 10

What did children do on a daily basis?

Answer 10

Worked and helped their families, went to school, sometimes played, listened to their family tell/read stories

Question 11

What were the houses like in different regions?

Answer 11

Plantations: self sufficient
Log Cabins: one room
Row Houses: multi-storied, made of brick

Question 12

Which areas relied on timber?

Answer 12

New England Colonies

Question 13

Which areas relied on fur?

Answer 13

New England Colonies

Question 14

Which areas relied on fishing?

Answer 14

New England Colonies

Question 15

Which areas relied on wheat?

Answer 15

Middle Colonies

Question 16

Which areas relied on rice?

Answer 16

Southern Colonies

Question 17

Which areas relied on tobacco?

Answer 17

Southern Colonies

Question 18

How were doctors and surgery different during colonial times compared to modern times?

Answer 18

CT: held patients down, had little if any schooling

MT: use medicine to keep patients still, many years of school

Question 19

A- How did people communicate with each other?

B- Why did people use paper but not envelopes when sending letters?

Answer 19

A- Writing letters

B- envelopes were difficult to make, expensive to make, paper was to important to waste

Question 20

Why did people go into towns in NEC and MC?

Answer 20

To trade/buy/sell goods

Question 21

Why was reading so important in the colonies?

Answer 21

So people could read the Bible, read aloud to their family, share stories.

Question 22

How was life different living in each of these; small town, plantation, city and small farm?

Answer 22

P= self-sufficient,no need to leave, many African slaves, farming focused, large pieces of land, wealthy land owners
ST= worked as an apprentice, self sufficient, own small plots of land, grew crops and raised livestock, went to town to trade
C= made newspapers, lots of people, very religious 
SF= small family farm, went to town to trade and attended meetings

Question 23

What was church like in the colonies?

Answer 23

Very important everyone attended, took most of the day, happened on Sundays