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| What was the meetinghouse used for in most New England towns? | It was a house of worship and a place of government. |
| What was the purpose of a town meeting? | To make decisions about laws and town workers. |
| How did market towns help farmers who lived near them? | Farmers could trade their crops for goods and services. |
| What did the triangular trade route link? | Britain, British colonies, and Africa. |
| What economic activities contributed to the growth of cities along the Atlantic Coast? | Whaling. |
| How did young people who lived in cities learn to do jobs that required special skills? | By becoming apprentices. |
| Who owned most of the land in the Southern Colonies? | Planters. |
| Where were early southern plantations usually built? | Along waterways. |
| What did southern plantation owners use instead of money? | Crops |
| Who did planters most often sell their farm products through? | British brokers. |
| What were indentured servants? | People who had to work for a set time without pay. |
| Who enabled wealthy planters to do the work required on large plantations? | Enslaved Africans. |
| What best describes the education received by the daughters of Southern planters? | They learned to read and sew. |
| Why were there so few schools in the southern colonies? | Most of the people lived far apart on plantations. |
| What is the land between the Coastal Plain and the Appalachian Mountains known as? | Backcountry. |
| How are indentured servants related to water transportation? | They traveled to America by ship. |
| How are raw materials related to water transportation? | They were shipped from the colonies to Britain. |
| How were slaves related to water transportation? | They were transported by ship from Africa to the colonies in North America. |
| How does tobacco relate to water transportation? | It was transported by ship to Britain to be sold. |
| How do whale products relate to water transportation? | Hunters went to sea to kill whales and then returned to ports to sell whale products. |
| What were some inportant imports of the British colonies? | Books, clothing, machinery, shoes, threads, tools. |
| What were some important exports of the British colonies? | dried fish, furs, indigo, rice, tobacco, lumber. |
| What were the jobs of the planter? | To see that crops were planted, harvested, stored, and shipped to matket as well as keeping careful records of the business. |
| What were the jobs of the planter's wife? | To clothe and feed the family and make sure everyone living on the plantation had food, clothing, and medical care. |
