A market is created when buyers and sellers - PowerPoint Presentation

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A

market is created when buyers and sellers come together.

Colonial Market Economy and the Trades WorkersSlide2

During Colonial times, a variety of trades workers provided goods and

services to satisfy the wants and needs of members of their communities. Colonial Market Economy and the Trades WorkersSlide3

Trades Workers had to consider 3 Key Economic Questions

. They had to decide what to produce,

how

to produce it

and

for whom

to

produce

products and services. Slide4

PrinterSlide5

Printer

Printers printed newspapers for the community, advertisements and forms

for

businesses

,

pages

for

bookbinders

and

laws

and

official proclamations

. Slide6

PrinterIn the print shop,

each letter was set on an iron rule, called a composing stick, to form words and lines. Slide7

Printer

Then the lines

were set into cases

called alleys

. Slide8

Printer

After the type was set, wood-handled, leather covered ink balls were used to spread ink evenly on the type.Slide9

PrinterThe

puller pulled the lever that operated the worm screw, which moved the platen downward to press paper against the inked type. Slide10

BlacksmithSlide11

Blacksmith

The colonial blacksmith turned iron into door handles, hinges, spoons, pots,

pans, cups,

horseshoes

,

tools

and more. Slide12

BlacksmithOne of the blacksmith’s most important tools was the

anvil, upon which the heavy work of hammering and shaping the hot iron was done. The blacksmith also used a variety of tongs and

hammers

to turn

iron

into useful objects.Slide13

BlacksmithThe blacksmith made useful tools for

families in his community and for other tradesworkers; scissors for tailors, engravers for the silversmith, trowels

for

brickmakers

,

hammers

for

shoemakers

and

saws

for

carpenters

. Slide14

ApothecarySlide15

ApothecaryThe colonial apothecary made and sold medicine and they offered services such as dental work, bloodletting and performing minor surgery. Slide16

ApothecaryThe mortar and pestle was used to grind imported and locally grown medicines

and herbs into powder.Slide17

Apothecary

Leeches and lancets were used for bloodletting.Slide18

ApothecaryThe apothecary used tools called a dental chisel, a tooth key

and "goat's foot" elevators for dental work.Slide19

Apothecary

Apothecaries provided a wide range of medical services and medicines for those who could afford them.Slide20

CooperSlide21

CooperCoopers made casks to hold dry goods such as flour, gunpowder and tobacco. They also made containers like pails, churns and tubs to hold liquids.Slide22

Cooper

Coopers used broad axes , planes and drawknives to shape wood into staves. Then the staves were gathered into a circle and held in place by a ring.Slide23

Cooper

The cooper's compass was used to create barrels of perfect roundness.Slide24

CooperCasks made by coopers

were essential items of colonial life. Merchants, shippers, farmers and housewives depended on them to hold luxuries and necessities.Slide25

BrickmakerSlide26

BrickmakerBrickmakers made bricks for use in new construction and repair throughout the colonies.Slide27

BrickmakerBricks were shaped by a moulder

and fired in a kiln.Slide28

BrickmakerBuilders, landowners and merchants used bricks to construct and repair homes, buildings, chimneys and roads.Slide29

ShoemakerSlide30

ShoemakerShoemakers repaired worn shoes, sold ready made “sale shoes”, and crafted custom made shoes and boots.Slide31

ShoemakerShoemakers used tools with strange sounding names such as awls, lasts, “

helling sticks”, “petty-boys” and “St. Hugh’s Bones” to turn leather into shoes and boots. Slide32

ShoemakerSoldiers, farmers, merchants, preachers, teachers , children, gentry, slaves, other trades workers and their apprentices all needed the goods and services provided by the shoemaker.Slide33

TailorSlide34

TailorTailors produced men's

garments such as: greatcoats; cloaks; robes, and breeches. Slide35

TailorFor women, they made riding habits, stays, hoops, and cloaks. Slide36

TailorClothes for slaves, included linen jackets and trousers for field hands and fine suits for household servants.Slide37

TailorA tailor’s skill in measuring an individual’s body and making a pattern from those measurements determined how well a garment fit. Slide38

TailorAlmost everybody in Colonial America; the wealthy

elite, field slaves, and all the folks in between required a tailor. The only differences in the clothing was in the quality of the fabric.