Colonial Merchants

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Colonial Merchants
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Table Of Contents

• Introduction
• What Houses Were Made Of
• Merchants Were Traders
• Where Merchants Sold Their Goods
• What They Ate And Drank
• Other Jobs
• Blacksmith
• Gunsmith
• Cooper
• One Famous Merchant
• Summary
• Bibliography
• Created By
• Shawn, Billy, Ali
• The End

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Introduction

• Our group is learning about Colonial American
  Merchants.

• Here are some facts we learned about merchants.

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What Houses Were Made Of

• Wealthy people like merchants built homes out of
  stone, brick, or wood.
• To get their building supplies they shipped them
  from England or other countries.

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Merchants Were Traders

• They traded blankets, rugs, bearskin, broadcloth,
  womens petticoats, caps, mens and womens
  gloves, tablecloths, shoe buckles, silk laces,
  handkerchiefs, buttons, pots, steel, wood, china,
  cut glass, silver, butter, eggs, vegetables,
  dishes, cotton, clothes, coffee, sugar,
  spices,and tools.

• They also traded sun dried foods, lemons, olive
  oil, anchovies, and Jamaican Spirit.

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Where Merchants Sold Their Goods

• Merchants sold their goods at a marketplace, or
  at a trading post.

• They would sell their goods in the town square
  because it was the busiest place.

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What They Ate and Drank

• Merchants ate the food that they traded with
  other people in town.
• They drank coffee and ale.

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Other Jobs

• Merchants had different jobs in the wintertime.
• They would be GunSmiths, BlackSmiths, or
  Coopers.
• These are facts about their other jobs.

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BlackSmith

• Blacksmiths made tools for farmers.
• To make tools they heated the metal until it was
  yellow and soft.
• Then they pounded and shaped the metal with a
  hammer and let it cool and harden.

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GunSmith

• The GunSmith gets some wood he carves the wood
  in the shape of a handle on a gun.
• You have to be at least 14 years old to be a gun
  smith.

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Cooper

• Coopering requires a lot of skill.
• Coopering crafted casks which held flour,
  gunpowder, tobacco, milk, and also wine.
• Many Colonial Coopers worked on plantations to
  produce barrels to ship as many hogs heads as
  possible to other places.
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One Famous Merchant

• There were not very many merchants back then.
• One of the richest merchants was Thomas Hancock.
• He was very famous.

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Summary

• There were not very many merchants back then.
• They were very rich.
• They shipped their goods from different countries
  to America.

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Bibliography

• http//www.my-ecoach.com/online/
  webresourcelist.php.?rlid70
• //www.raken.com/americanwealthy/shippingmerchants/
  shippingmerchants.asp
• www.hfmgv.org/village/porchesandparlors/giddings/d
  efaut.asp
• //www.history.org/almanack/life/tradeguns.cfm
• http//www.usahistory.info/colonial/customs.html

• http//www.earlyamerica.com/earlyamerica/past/past
  .html
• Colonial Living
• Colonial Life
• Pioneer Life
• http//www.history/almanack/life/trades/tradecco.c
  fm

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Created By.
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Shawn, Billy, Ali
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The End

• Thanks For Watching.