| A | B |
|---|
| apprentice | young person who learns a skill from more experienced person |
| artisan | a skilled worker |
| miller | ran mill to grind wheat and corn into flour |
| merchant | traded goods with England and other countries |
| dressmaker | made clothes from woven material |
| cooper | made barrel from wood and iron |
| colonial economies | had different types of natural resources and developed its own type of economy |
| New England's Economy | based on products from forests and the sea |
| New England's Economy | used barrels to store all, had fishing and trees used for houses, ships and barrels |
| Middle Colonies' Economy | based on farm products and valuable minerals such as iron and known as "Breadbasket" |
| Middle Colonies' nickname | Breadbasket because they grew so much wheat |
| Southern Colonies' Economy | Had rich soil, warm weather, and plenty of rain |
| Southern Colonies' Economy | Developed much farming ranging from family run to plantations powered by work of slaves |
| Cash crops | Tobacco, rice and indigo (a plant used to make blue dye) |
| Flour and Wheat Mills powered by this | water and wind |
| Triangular Trade Routes | Routes between England, Africa, and England |
| Charleston | thriving trade center |
| West Africa | Ships began in New England and went here to trade guns for gold and captive Africans |
| West Indies | Second leg of triangle, also know as Middle passage |
| West Indies | ships traded captive Africans and gold for sugar and molasses |
| Last part of Trade Route | Brought sugar and molasses to colonial ports, molasses used to make rum |
| Children who grew up on farms did this | Boys hunted and chopped wood, and girl helped their mothers make household products. |
| Natural resources that was basis of New England Economy | forests, the sea, fishing and whaling |
| Natural resources that was basis of Southern Economy | rich soil, plenty of rain, farming, and indigo and tobacco plantations |
| Industries that developed in South | Tobacco industries and Indigo exportation to Europe |
