3.  Contains what is now the following states: Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut  New England main industries are fishing, whaling, trapping and triangular trade with slaves

4.  Contains what is now the following states: New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Delaware  The Middle Colonies main industries are wheat, oats, logging, paper, textiles and shipbuilding

5. Includes the what is now the following states: Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia. The Southern Colonies made a big industry off of the cash crops rice, tobacco, indigo, sugar cane and cotton.

6. Benjamin Franklin started the first subscription library Alexander Hamilton Was appointed major general during the Quasi- War John Adams was one of the main people to draft the Declaration of Independence Thomas Jefferson bought the Louisiana territory

7.  This practice came to America because they needed people to work on their plantations.  The southern colonies became most dependent on slavery because they had plantations where they needed workers to work on.

8.  Blacksmith: crafters of hardware for homes and tools for fellow tradesman  Silversmith: sculptor of silver, from first pour to final polish  Cooper: creators of casks for everything from wine to gunpowder

9.  The following tools were used in jobs in colonial times:  Saws  Hammers  Chisels

10.  The following foods are traditional foods and foods that were only made back in the Colonial times:  Peanut Soup  Holiday Wasil  Shepherds Pie

11.  Men’s clothing was a shirt, stockings, coat, shoes hat, waistcoat’ silk carvat  Women’s clothing a shirt, looped petticoat, stockings, shoes, gown, hat, silk petticoat

12.  Children learned their letters, learned how to read, and learned other things like logic and math  Children played games called rolling hoops, walking on stilts, ninepins, board games, cards and puzzles

13.  The rich owned large houses with slaves, fields and sometimes statues  The middle-class owned 2-room houses with an attic  The poor had to make houses of everything they get a hold of.

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