Colonial America Vocabulary

What is a natural resource ?

• things that you grow

• things that are not man-made.

• materials that you get from the store

A_______ is a person who is skilled in a particular craft.

• fisherman

• Shopkeeper

• craftsmen

Pick two sentences that describe a plantation .

• a small farm, with one family

• a large farm that specializes in growing cash crops

• the people who live there, harvest the crops.

What does the word economy mean ?

• how people buy things

• how people live, work and make money

• how people interact with their family and the community

Living together and enjoying life with other people

• varied, different

• social life

• diverse

• predominately

cash crop farming is the growing of food for

• food

• sale

• import

• leisure

The________ is headquarters of a city or town and is used to meet about political and civic matters.

• meeting place

• city center

• town hall

Which sentence describes a shopkeeper ?

• An individual who builds things

• An individual who owns or runs a shop.

• An individual who is in charge of the town

A group of businesses that make or sell similar products or perform similar services is called a__________.

• company

• business

• industry

What is a port?

• A place at the edge of the water where ships go to load and unload their cargo.

• A place where people by and trade goods

• A place where people go to fish