1. Colonial Market Economy and the Trades Workers
A market is created when buyers and sellers
come together.

2. Colonial Market Economy and the Trades Workers
During Colonial times, a variety of trades workers provided goods and services to satisfy the wants and needs of members of their communities.

3. Trades Workers had to consider 3 Key Economic Questions
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.

4. Printer

5. Printer
Printers printed newspapers for the community, advertisements and forms for businesses, pages for bookbinders and laws and official proclamations.

6. Printer
In the print shop, each letter was set on an iron rule, called a composing stick, to form words and lines.

7. Printer
Then the lines
were set into cases
called alleys.

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

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

10. Blacksmith

11. Blacksmith
The colonial blacksmith turned iron into door handles, hinges, spoons, pots, pans, cups, horseshoes, tools and more.
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12. Blacksmith
One 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.

13. Blacksmith
The 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.

14. Apothecary

15. Apothecary
The colonial apothecary made and sold medicine and they offered services such as dental work, bloodletting and performing minor surgery.

16. Apothecary
The mortar and pestle was used to grind imported and locally grown medicines and herbs into powder.

17. Apothecary
Leeches and lancets were used for bloodletting.

18. Apothecary
The apothecary used tools called a dental chisel, a tooth key and "goat's foot" elevators for dental work.

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

20. Cooper

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

22. 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.

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

24. Cooper
Casks made by coopers were essential items of colonial life. Merchants, shippers, farmers and housewives depended on them to hold luxuries and necessities.

25. Brickmaker

26. Brickmaker
Brickmakers made bricks for use in new construction and repair throughout the colonies.

27. Brickmaker
Bricks were shaped by a moulder and fired in a kiln.

28. Brickmaker
Builders, landowners and merchants used bricks to construct and repair homes, buildings, chimneys and roads.

29. Shoemaker

30. Shoemaker
Shoemakers repaired worn shoes, sold ready made “sale shoes”, and crafted custom made shoes and boots.

31. Shoemaker
Shoemakers 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.

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

33. Tailor

34. Tailor Tailors produced men's garments such as: great
coats; cloaks; robes, and breeches.

35. Tailor
For women, they made riding habits, stays, hoops, and cloaks.

36. Tailor
Clothes for slaves, included linen jackets and trousers for field hands and fine suits for household servants.

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

38. Tailor
Almost 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.