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What city has the largest population in the mid-1700s |
Philadelphia |
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What things to Benjamin Franklin begin or establish in the city of Philadelphia |
Franklin founded the city's first newspaper first public library and first hospital he also started the first volunteer fire department in the 13 colonies |
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How did Benjamin Franklin and the city of Philadelphia help each other |
Franklin who came to Philadelphia to be a printer found at a printing job in the city and he had a lot to do with Philadelphia success |
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What is self sufficient |
Relying on yourself for most of what you need |
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What is town common |
An open space where cattle and sheep could graze businesses were located around the town common |
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What was the most important building in a colonial New England town |
The meetinghouse |
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What is A Southern plantation |
A large farm where cash crops such as tobacco rice and indigo overgrown most of the work on plantations was done by enslaved Africans plantations were similar to a small town |
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Who was eLiza Lucas pinckney |
The first person in the 13 colonies to raise a successful crop of indigo |
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What kinds of jobs did slaves do on a plantation |
Planting and harvesting crops cooking and cleaning in the owners whole house working in blacksmith in carpentry shop's smokehouse is bakeries laundry buildings and stables |