| A | B |
|---|
| Meetinghouse | House of worship and place of government |
| Town meeting | Make decisions about laws and town workers |
| Market towns | Helped farmers by giving them a place to trade their crops for goods and services |
| Triangle trade route | linked Britain, British colonies, Africa |
| Whaling | Contributed to the growth of cities along the Atlantic coast |
| Young people who lived in cities | learned to do jobs that required special skills by becoming apprentices |
| In southern colonies, most of the land was owned by | planters |
| Early southern plantations were usually built | along waterways |
| Southern plantations owners used crops | instead of money |
| Planters most often sold their farm products through | British brokers |
| Indentured servants | had to work for a set period of time without pay |
| Wealthy planters were able to do the work required on large plantations | with the help of enslaved Africans |
| The daughters of southern planters | learned how to read and sew |
| There were no schools in the southern colonies because | most of the people lived far apart on plantations |
| In "Greenhorn of the Prarie" | Harry and Sukey worked hard to build a wilderness farm |
| Indentured servants | were people who agreed to work for a set period of time as payment for the cost of their trip to America |
| Raw materials | were shipped from the colonies to Britain |
| Slaves | were transported from Africa to the colonies in North America |
| Tobacco | transported by ship to Britain to be sold |
| Whaling | Ships going to sea to kill whales and then return to port to sell products |
| Common exports | dried fish, furs, indigo, rice, tobacco, lumber |
| Common imports | books, clothing, lace, machinery, shoes, thread, tools |
| Planter's jobs | See that crops were planted, harvested, stored, shipped; and to keep careful records of business |
| Planter's wife | Clothe family, feed family; make sure everyone living on the plantation had food, clothing, and medical care |
