Focus on the main idea: People in the 13 colonies produced a wide variety of goods and developed thriving trade routes.
Questions to think about as you read:
1 What problems did surgeons' apprentices have during operations? How is this problem solved today?
2 How was work in cities and towns similar to work on farms for young workers? how was it different?
3 What was the second step in the candle making process in the 1700's
4 In which region did slaves play a role in producing goods?
5 How are natural resources and climates of the Southern colonies related to their industry?
6 Why do you think Boston and New York became thriving trading centers?
7 Summarize three possible outcomes for Africans after being captured and brought to the slave ships.
Answers to the questions that you read:
1 Keeping patients from moving during surgery. In the past they held down the patients. Today anesthesia is used.
2 Similar: They had just as much work to do. Different: City workers became apprentices. Farm workers gathered wood, served food, and helped in the garden.
3 Dipping a candle wick into the fat and letting it harden.
4 In the Southern Colonies
5 The rich soil, warm weather and plentiful rain of the southern colonies made it possible to grow crops.
6 They are located on the coast where ships set sail or landed.
7 They could have died on the slave ships, remained enslaved in the west indies, or become enslaved in the colonies.
Questions to think about as you read:
1 What problems did surgeons' apprentices have during operations? How is this problem solved today?
2 How was work in cities and towns similar to work on farms for young workers? how was it different?
3 What was the second step in the candle making process in the 1700's
4 In which region did slaves play a role in producing goods?
5 How are natural resources and climates of the Southern colonies related to their industry?
6 Why do you think Boston and New York became thriving trading centers?
7 Summarize three possible outcomes for Africans after being captured and brought to the slave ships.
Answers to the questions that you read:
1 Keeping patients from moving during surgery. In the past they held down the patients. Today anesthesia is used.
2 Similar: They had just as much work to do. Different: City workers became apprentices. Farm workers gathered wood, served food, and helped in the garden.
3 Dipping a candle wick into the fat and letting it harden.
4 In the Southern Colonies
5 The rich soil, warm weather and plentiful rain of the southern colonies made it possible to grow crops.
6 They are located on the coast where ships set sail or landed.
7 They could have died on the slave ships, remained enslaved in the west indies, or become enslaved in the colonies.