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5th grade · Social Studies · Unit 3 of 8

Colonial Trade & Work

Resources, trade and choices

What your child practices

Needs and wants, resources, specialization and trade in the colonies, mercantilism, and the Atlantic slave trade and its impact on African peoples, told plainly and age-appropriately.

Washington State Learning Standards learning standard: E2.5.1; E1.5.1; E2.5.3; G3.5.2 · colonial economic systems, choices, specialization and trade, and the impact of the slave trade on African peoples

Sample questions

A taste of this unit. In the app, questions change every time and get easier or harder to match your child.

  1. Question 1

    Why do people who specialize also trade?

    • Trade is against the law
    • They never need anything
    • They need goods that others make
    • They have too much money

  2. Question 2

    In the triangular trade, ships carried goods from Europe to Africa, enslaved people from Africa to the Americas, and…

    • Gold to China
    • Nothing at all
    • Wheat to the Arctic
    • Crops like sugar and tobacco back to Europe

  3. Question 3

    A farmer chooses to plant wheat instead of corn. What is the opportunity cost?

    • The wheat
    • The farm
    • The corn she could have grown
    • Nothing

  4. Question 4

    What is barter?

    • Borrowing money
    • Saving coins in a bank
    • Paying taxes
    • Trading goods directly without money

  5. Question 5

    Which raw material from New England forests was valuable for ships?

    • Gold
    • Tall trees for masts
    • Cotton
    • Oil

  6. Question 6

    How did trade link the colonies to other parts of the world?

    • They traded only with each other
    • Ships carried goods to and from Europe, Africa and the Caribbean
    • Trade was banned
    • They traded only with China

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