USI.5d Who am I? Colonial Social Groups

I've been studying to be a blacksmith for years. Maybe they can use my talents on a plantation or in a small town.

• Large Landowners

• Artisans

• Farmers

• Women

I can't vote, but at least I get paid for the work I do.

• Large Landowners

• Farmers

• Women

• Free African Americans

I did not have enough money to pay for my journey here to the colonies, but I've worked for the last seven years to pay off my contract and finally I get a chance to make a life here.

• Farmers

• Enslaved African Americans

• Indentured Servants

• Women

Always cleaning and cooking, and taking care of the house! I can’t vote and I cannot get an education. Life’s not fair for people like me!

• Artisans

• Women

• Farmers

• Large Landowners

Life is wonderful here in the Southern colonies. Its so nice overseeing the work my slaves and servants do! I can get rich without lifting a finger

• Merchants

• Free African Americans

• Artisans

• Large Landowners

I miss my family! Being snatched away was so awful. Here, I don’t even feel like a person, I feel like property. I was sold away from my family, and my children were born into this wretched life!

• Free African Americans

• Indentured Servants

• Enslaved African Americans

• Artisans

I earn an honest living. I work hard to feed my family. I work the land and do the best I can. I know that if we all work together, we will survive the in the New World.

• Farmers

• Women

• Artisans

• Merchants

I can live and work in small towns or cities across all 13 colonies. I buy and sell goods to the colonists.

• Artisans

• Merchants

• Farmers

• Indentured Servants