Social Studies- Chapter 6 Study Guide
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1. Goods brought into the colonies from other countries are called imports.
2. A public sale is an auction.
3. A place where male landowners could take part in government is called a
town meeting.
4. A part of a house between the ceiling and the roof.
5. Goods to be sold in other countries are called exports.
6. A large part of a colony is called a county.
7. A statement based on facts is a generalization.
8. A volunteer army is a militia.
9. A person who is paid to buy and sell for someone else is called a broker.
10. The main town for each colony is called the county seat.
11. A meetinghouse stood at the center of New England towns.
12. A circle graph can also be called a pie graph.
13. An indentured servant can earn his freedom.
14. There was a lack of schools on southern plantations.
15. People on the frontier made almost everything they needed.
16. A Conestoga was a large moving wagon used to transport goods.
17. Almost half of the colonial population in 1775 was English.
18. Women or young girls never went to college during these times.
19. The beaver was hunted for its valuable fur.
20. An apprentice was a person who learned from an expert in order to learn a
trade.
21. New York, Charleston, and Philadelphia were three major coastal cities
started by the mid 1700s.
22. Britain, Africa, and the British colonies were known for their triangular
trade route.
23. Rice, indigo, and tobacco were three major cash crops in the southern
colonies.
24. Food, clothing, and medical care were the three main things that the
planter’s wife had to provide.
25. The colonists moved to the frontier to help them move to the frontier.
26. The British moved to the Ohio River Valley because they wanted to control
the fur trade.
27. Daniel Boone was a famous Pennsylvanian who traveled on the Great Wagon
Road.
28. A constable, herder, and the leader of the militia were 3 important people
mentioned from our book in a New England town.