SETTLING NORTH AMERICA 1497 1732
THE SOUTHERN COLONIES SETTLEMENT AND GROWTH
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True
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Either A or B
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Detailed explanation-1: -Craftsmen who make wooden barrels are called coopers. The word is most likely derived from the Latin word for vat, “cupa.” In New England, coopers arrived with the first English settlers in the 1620s. Their work was essential to commerce and daily life.
Detailed explanation-2: -A cooper is a person trained to make wooden casks, barrels, vats, buckets, tubs, troughs and other similar containers from timber staves that were usually heated or steamed to make them pliable.
Detailed explanation-3: -A slack cooper could build up to ten containers a day using crude tools by today’s standards. Tight coopers were the masters of their trade. They made barrels that kept moisture out, critical for flour or gunpowder or kept liquid in, essential for whiskey, rum, and wine.
Detailed explanation-4: -coo·per ˈkü-pər ˈku̇-: one that makes or repairs wooden casks or tubs. cooper.