| A | B |
|---|
| nutrients | healthy part of what you grow/eat |
| colonial crafts | cabinet making, leather, silverware, pottery |
| industry | businesses that make or grow things |
| gentry | rich merchant and planter class |
| breeches | pants that came to the knee |
| colonial education | hornbook; tutors for rich; private schooling for rich; others taught at home First public school in Boston |
| intolerant | did not like people who believed differently |
| merchant | a person who buys and sells things |
| economy | how people make and spend money |
| vote | make a choice for leader or law |
| Middle Colonies grew... | wheat and corn |
| trade | to give one thing for another |
| Countries with colonies | England, Spain, France, Holland |
| Benjamin Franklin | stove, eyeglasses, Poor Richard's Almanack, newspaper, electricity, statesman, Dec. of Ind., scientist |
| welfare | happiness, well-being |
| hanging | penalty for counterfeiting or armed robbery |
| Colonial Punishments | pay a fine; be whipped; dunking stool; stocks; hanging |
| North Colonies grew...(Industries) | timber; fish/whaling; shipbuilding; iron ore |
| Vote? | white men, property owners--not a servant |
| Crimes (police, constable, sheriffs) | being drunk; telling lies; swearing; stealing; making too much noise; breaking Sunday rules; witchcraft; counterfeiting; armed robbery |
| German | what the Pennsylvania Dutch really were |
| apprentice | boy who learns on the job |
| purify | make it better (Puritans) |
| persecute | to treat in a mean or cruel way |
| livestock | animals raised for profit (money) |
| iron | important metal found by northern colonists |
| Southern colonies grew... | indigo, rice, tobacco |
| transportation (travel) | foot-horse-wagon-carriage-ferry |
| counterfeit | fake not real money |
| craftsman | skilled worker |
| Puritans | one group of religious colonists |
| colonial food | hunted: deer, birds, squirrels, rabbits, turkey. Raised: cows, pigs, cattle, chicken, goats. Grew: rice, berries, potatoes, wheat, fruit, corn. Caught: fish (cod), shrimp, mussels, clams, lobsters, oysters. |
| plantation | very large farm in southern colonies |
| debt | money owed |
| tax | money paid to help support public workings and government |
