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SS Chapter 6
Life in the English Colonies
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| A young person who learns a skill from a more experienced person | apprentice |
| a skilled person who makes things by hand | artisan |
| City in South Carolina that because a thriving trade center | Charleston |
| three sided trade route between the 13 Colonies, the West Indies, and Africa; included the slave trade. | triangular trade route |
| Western region of Africa | West Africa |
| Islands between the Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean Sea, extending from Florida toe Venezuela in South America | West Indies |
| Name given to the second leg of the triangular trade routes: extended from West Africa to the West Indies | Middle Passage |
| writer, scientist, inventor and diplomat. Helped write the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution | Benjamin Franklin |
| City in Pennsylvania where Ben Franklin founded the city's first newspaper | Philadelphia |
| able to rely on themselves for most of what they need | self-sufficient |
| an open space where cattle and sheep could graze | town common |
| the first person in the 13 colonies to raise a successful crop of indigo | Eliza Lucas Pinckney |
| Capital and largest city in Massachusetts | Boston |
| city in southeastern Virginia, capital of the colony of Virginia from 1699 to 1779 | Williamsburg |
| city in southern Rhode Island | Newport |
| first President of the US. Commander-in-chief of the Continental Army during the American Revolution | George Washington |
| minister during the Great Awakening who traveled throughout the American colonies | George Whitefield |
| Printer who was arrested for libel and whose trial helped establish the principle of freedom of the press | John Peter Zenger |
| Important religious movement among Christians that began in the colonies in the 1730s. | Great Awakening |
| reference book with helpful facts and figures | almanac |
| an African enslaved in New England who purchased his freedom and wrote a book telling the story of his life | Venture Smith |
| African who was enslaved and brought to North America. He later wrote a book about the journey from West Africa to the colonies | Olaudah Equiano |
| a group of enslaved people fought with slave owners in South Carolina. 25 white colonists were killed before the slaves were captured and executed | Stono Rebellion |
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