Grade 4 Social: Chapter 4 Lesson 3: Living in Colonial NY

Economy is the way a region's people use resources to meet their needs.

• True

• False

The people of New York's colony set up their economy based on three things (choose 3):

• what the King wanted

• what goods and services to make

• how to produce goods and services

• who will use these resources

An industry is . . .

• a person who worked with iron

• the jobs that the King of England gave the colonists

• a factory

• All the businesses that make one kind of product or one kind of service

A person who works in ironworks could do 3 jobs (choose 3)

• mine iron ore

• melt iron ore and remove the iron

• sculpt and use the iron to make metal tools such as axes and plows

• iron the iron flat

Another word for manufacture is to

• make

• run

• jump

• fly

Most colonists worked in huge businesses.

• True

• False

The growth in economy helped the population in New York Colony grow.

• True

• False

Farmers and Craftspeople sold their goods in

• Grocery Stores

• malls

• markets in Albany

• plazas

Most children in New York Colony went to school for how many years?

• 3

• 12

• 1

• 0

Most colonists in New York made their living by

• farming

• being blacksmiths

• begging

• hunting and gathering