Merchants

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Merchants

• By Klynn, Brittany, and Briana

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Table of contents

• Introduction 3
• What they sold 4
• What they trade 5
• Their supplies 6
• Businesses 7
• More facts 8
• Even More facts 9
• What we learned about Merchants 10
• Web sites used 11
• Trades 12
• Even more trades 13
• Summery 14

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Introduction

• We are learning about Merchants .We have a lot of
  information for you.

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What they sold

• They sold knives, forks, pills, curtains for
  beds, woolcards, ink, lace, chamber pots, nails,
  ink pots, blankets, rugs, cloth, cloaks, diapers,
  cloth gloves, and venison.

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Who they traded with

• American merchants started to trade with China
  and farmers.

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Their supplies

• They bought and sold supplies.
• They also traded for their supplies.
• They got their supplies from shiping.
• They got first pick from the shipping.
• They picked the very best stuff from shipping.

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Businesses

• Some had good businesses because they sold cheap
  things. Some did not have good businesses because
  they did not have a lot to sell.

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More facts.

• Only men could be Merchants. Woman could not be
  Merchants because they were to busy at home.

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Even more facts.

• They are rich. Merchants built homes of stone,
  bricks, and wood. They sold fragile things like
  china and pottery.
• There was a Merchant named George Smith.

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What we learned about Merchants

• We learned about some of the stuff they sold, who
  they traded with, how they built there houses and
  that only men were Merchants, that some did not
  have very good business, and sold some very
  interesting things. We learned more things then
  we thought we would.

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Web sites used

• http//www.earlyamerica.com/earlyamerica/past/past
  .htm
• http//www.raken.com/americanweath/shipping-mercha
  nts/shipping-merchants2.asp
• http//www.usahistory.info/conidlycostems.htm

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Gunsmith

• A Gunsmith makes guns.
• They use metal to make the guns.
• They began when they are 12 and 14 years old.
• They finished probably when they where 21.
• They repaired axes and other stuff.
• Only a man can be a Gunsmith.

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Weaver

• The main tool for a weaver is a loom.
• If you do not build the loom perfectly square
  then you will have a croked weave.

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Summary

• Thanks for watching our presentation. That is all.