Jobs and Resources
When using the Investigative Questions worksheets, use the titles from the bibliography and
websites to match the source to the sheet.
Gun Smith/Manufacturer
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Picture of Guns
African trader
African slave catcher/tranporter
Slave traders with guns
Map of Great Brittain
Use the “Early American Trade Coloring Book” Copeland, P. Occupation 20. Only use
the picture of the gunsmith!
Sugar plantation owner
Slave in field
More slaves working in field
Slaves holding bundles of cane
Slaves packing sugar
Ships getting ready to load- This shows cane being moved as well as it identifies the
place as the West Indies.
6. Triangular trade map detailing sugar to the new world
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Tobacco plantation owner
1. Tobacco leaves being dyed and rolled by slaves
2. Slaves packing tobacco into hogsheads while white men watch and smoke pipes
3. Processes of harvesting tobacco
** You may want to title this as well as use the written description accompanying the
picture because it isn’t evident exactly what’s going on.
4. Tobacco label
5. Tobacco being shipped – This serves at least two purposes, shows shipping of tobacco,
and names colonies that would ship it.
6. Triangular trade map
African Slave trader
1. Traders transporting and beating slaves
2. Slave traders with guns
3. African trader bartering
4. Slave trader accepting payment
5. Diagram of shackles
6. Map of Africa
Ship Builder
1. Use the “Early American Trade Coloring Book” Copeland, P. Occupation 7, both pages.
2. Slaves being put on ships
3. Diagram of a ship
4. Slave ships – masts are prominent and the focus
5. Map of Great Brittain
6. New England Colonies
Black smith
1. Various chains, locks, etc. used to subdue slaves
2. Pictures of various tools
3. Slaves using tools
4. “Early American Trade Coloring Book” Copeland, P. Occupation 21, both pages
5. Map of Great Brittain
6. New England Colonies
Lumberjack
1. Picture of docks, hogsheads, and ships
2. Plantation house with slave houses in the background
3. Use the “Early American Crafts and Occupaions Coloring Book” Copeland, P. Page
number 4
4. Map of colonies
Cooper
1. Hogsheads picture
2. Use the “Early American Trade Coloring Book” Copeland, P. Occupation 17, both pages.
3. Process of harvesting tobacco- pay particular attention to the storing/shipping of it.
4. Tobacco label
5. Barrels in a distillery
6. Sugar being shipped
7. Map of colonies
Distiller/Rum maker
1. Diagram and explanation of rum process
2. Barrels in a distillery
3. Sugar being shipped
4. Traders bartering – jugs of rum in foreground
5. Triangular trade
Use the following to get the coloring pages for some of the occupations.
Copeland, Peter (1980). Early American Crafts and Occupations Coloring Book. Mineola, N.Y.
Dover Publications.
Summary: This is a coloring book 25 descriptions and coloring pages of different trades/occupations
that colonial Americans had. The value of this book is for a list of jobs as well pictures to be used for
students to have an idea of what the job assigned to them entailed.
Copeland, Peter (1980). Early American Trades Coloring Book. Mineola, N.Y. Dover
Publications.
Summary: This is a coloring book 22 descriptions and coloring pages of different trades/occupations
that colonial Americans had. The value of this book is for a list of jobs as well pictures to be used for
students to have an idea of what the job assigned to them entailed.