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Shaping the World:
Conversations on Democracy
A Conversation with
Thomas Jefferson and George Washington |
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Shaping the World:
Conversations on Democracy
A Conversation with
Thomas Jefferson and George Washington |
Occupation Matching Exercise
See
if you can match these colonial occupations with their job description.
Draw a line from the occupation to the correct job description.
| Occupation | Job Description |
| Cabbie
Cowper Exciseman Flax Dresser Gater Loresman Perchemear Philosophical Instrument Maker Plowright Post Rider Rodman Searcher Surveyor Way Man Whacker |
a government official who collected excises
(taxes)
one who make parchment driver of a small horse-drawn passenger vehicle a teacher a watchman one who made wooden items one who carried mail over a post road one who prepared flax prior to spinning one who determined the boundaries, area, or elevations of land or
structures on the earth’s surface by means of measuring angles and distances,
using the techniques of geometry and trigonometry one who drove a team of oxen, horses, etc. a maker of scientific instruments surveyor of roads one who made or repaired plows one who was employed at a custom-house station to inspect incoming
goods; a customs-man a surveyor’s assistant who carried a leveling rod |