If you roll a 6, choose 1 block to read. Roll and Read (Green) 1 2 3 4 5 Have you ever traded We decided to travel These days money is Early colonists also A long time ago, magazines with a together for safety. used more than traded with each people did not use classmate? bartering. other. money. Bartering is trading These stores had Gardening is a service A blacksmith might A farmer could trade for things we need or everything from you might trade for a trade his a bag of grain for want instead of sewing thread to live new kite. horseshoeing service some fish. paying for them with chickens. with some who would money. sew a shirt. The colonists couldn’t Farmers traveled As the country grew, Over time, towns Both traders had to use their money. from their farms to people began to use formed. agree that their towns to get supplies. money to buy goods. goods had equal value. They had to gather Later, shopping malls They found money The Native Each town had a their own food. They replaced the stores easier to carry to the Americans used a general store. had to make their owned by local marketplace than form of money based own clothes. merchants. crops or livestock. on seashells.
If you roll a 6, choose 1 block to read. Roll and Read (Green) 1 2 3 4 5 Have you ever traded magazines with a classmate? We decided to travel together for safety. These days money is used more than bartering. Early colonists also traded with each other. A long time ago, people did not use money. Bartering is trading for things we need or want instead of paying for them with money. These stores had everything from sewing thread to live chickens. Gardening is a service you might trade for a new kite. A blacksmith might trade his horseshoeing service with some who would sew a shirt. A farmer could trade a bag of grain for some fish. The colonists couldn’t use their money. Farmers traveled from their farms to towns to get supplies. As the country grew, people began to use money to buy goods. Over time, towns formed. Both traders had to agree that their goods had equal value. They had to gather their own food. They had to make their own clothes. Later, shopping malls replaced the stores owned by local merchants. They found money easier to carry to the marketplace than crops or livestock. The Native Americans used a form of money based on seashells. Each town had a general store.
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