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life_in_the_colonies
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| SALTBOX HOUSE -location? -who would live in it? | located in New England poor or working people would live in them |
| GEORGIAN HOUSE -location? -Who lived in them | Located in New england merchant and wealthy people lived in them |
| GERMAN COLONIAL -location? -who lived in it? | Located in the middle colonies owned by working class and wealthy people |
| DUTCH COLONIAL -location? -Who lived in it? | located in the middle colonies owned by poor and working class people |
| PHILADELPHIA TOWNHOUSE -Location? -who lived in them? | located in the middle colonies all classes lived in them but the more wealthy the person, the bigger |
| PLANTATION HOUSES -Who lived in them? -location? | located in the southern colonies wealthy farmers |
| CHARLES TOWN COURTYARD HOUSE -Location? -who lived in them? | Located in south colonies owned by all classes in Charles town south carolina |
| SIMPLE SOUTHERN HOME -Location? -who lived in them? | southern colonies owned by poor and working class rural. |
| how many pounds are in a shilling? | 20 shilling=1 pound |
| how many pence in a shilling? | 12 pence in 1 shilling |
| how many pence in 1 pounds? | 240 pence=1 pound |
| what is biggest? -pence -pounds -shillings | pence |
| what is biggest -pence -pounds -shillings | pounds |
| what are all of the areas in an average farm? | -house lot -wood lot -meadow -pasture -tillage -orchard |
| what is a house lot used for? | -the living space -often 10-15 people living there -barn -pond -garden |
| what was the wood lot used for? | - the wood for fireplaces was grown there -5 acres per year -plant 5 acres each year |
| what was the pasture used for? | -a place for the animals to graze -put animals there in the summer |
| what was the tillage for? | -family crops -cash crops -most families only grew enough food for themselves |
| what is the meadow for? | -used to make hay -hay was to feed the animals in the winter -without the meadow land the animals would starve |
| What was the orchard for? | -fruit trees -apples were used to feed animals and to make cider -cider was important because the water was filthy |
| what is a Blacksmith? | Makes items out of iron and repaired items or parts of items made from iron or steel |
| what is a brickmaker? | Made bricks for constructing foundations and buildings |
| what is a cabinetmaker? | Made all types of furniture including tables, chairs, and bookcases. most cabinetmakers also provided coffin making services |
| what is a carpenter/Jointer? | Built, repaired, renovated, and remodeled buildings |
| what is a cooper? | made all sorts of wooden containers including well buckets, barrels for many things, and storage for shipping tobacco |
| what is a gunsmith? | made and repaired firearms and other metal tools and utensils |
| what is a milliner? | made new undergarments, accesories, and childrens clothing and reworked exsisting undergarments. also sold other fasion related goods. also offered laundry services. |
| what is a printer? | printed newspapers, ads, political notices, business papers, legal forms, theatre bills, and almanacs |
| what is a harnessmaker/saddler? | made different types of saddles and harness', saddlebags, trunks , leather water buckets, fire hoses, and other leather items. |
| what is a shoemaker? | Made different types of shoes for dress, work, and dancing. |
| what is a silversmith? | made spoons, ladles, forks, bowls, cups, teapots, and jewelry. |
| what is a wigmaker? | made, styled, cleaned and repaired wigs and queues; cut cleaned and dresses customers own hair; shaves faces and heads |
| what is an attorney? | -a lawyer. they were trained by reading legal records, books that the court cases that formed the english common law. untrained lawyers would apprentice with an experiences lawyer before starting out on their own. wanted to bring order back into society. |
| what is a judge? | wanted to bring order back into society. judges were important people in their religions, generally religious or political leaders. |
| what is the government officials? | the council is made up of reliable citizens in the colony. the governor makes important decisions about military expeditions. no law can be passed in the colony with out being signed by him. The governors council is expected to support his decisions |
| what is a merchant? | |
| what is a phisitian? | doctors. |
| what is a tax collector? | they work for the king. they collect taxes from people. |
| what is a smuggler | they were merchants who had to bribe costumers agents. |
| what is a minister? | people who are authorized to conduct religious worship. |
| what was the age of enlightenment? | The Age of Enlightenment was a period of scientific awakening. it significantly changed religion, intellectual inquiry, economy, and politics. |
| why was it so great to be British in 1750? | -wealthiest empire -GREAT military protection -king george III -american "independence" -people made laws (british justice) -low taxes for colonies -high standard for living |
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