chapter 3

Question 1

1. What items were traded from Africa to the Caribbean or America?

Answer 1

slaves

Question 2

2. What items were traded from the Caribbean to America?

Answer 2

sugar

Question 3

3. What items were traded from America to England?

Answer 3

tobacco

Question 4

4. What items were traded from England to America?

Answer 4

manufactured goods

Question 5

5. Which region was the most diverse “melting pot” of settlers? .

Answer 5

middle colonies

Question 6

6. The most common food crop in America was _____.

Answer 6

corn

Question 7

7. The son of Massasoit was Metacomet, who was also known as _____.

Answer 7

King Philip

Question 8

8. The colonial legislature, or elected assembly, had the “power of the _____” because it paid the governor’s salary and financed government activities.

Answer 8

purse

Question 9

9. A common tax in some colonies was a(n) _____ tax that citizens had to pay before they could vote.

Answer 9

poll tax

Question 10

10. The main crop in the tidewater areas of the southern colonies was _____ since the tides could be used to raise and lower the water levels in the fields.

Answer 10

rice

Question 11

. 11. The primary colonial tax paid by the colonists was a ___________paid by anyone who owned land.

Answer 11

property tax

Question 12

12. The wave of immigrants that came from Europe to America in the early years of colonization is called

Answer 12

Great migration

Question 13

13. An undeveloped area at the edge of the settled area is called

Answer 13

frontier

Question 14

14. The ____________________Mountains formed the western boundary of the British colonies for over one hundred years.

Answer 14

Appalachian

Question 15

15. The main north-south pathway from Pennsylvania to Georgia was called the___________________

Answer 15

great wagon road

Question 16

16. Travelers on the wilderness trails often used ____________________________ wagons to carry their belongings.

Answer 16

conestoga

Question 17

17. The route Daniel Boone helped clear through the Appalachian Mountains is the ___________________Road.

Answer 17

wilderness road

Question 18

18. Farmers who could raise just enough crops and livestock to provide for their families were called _______________ farmers

Answer 18

subsistence farmers

Question 19

19. Large farms in the South that grew cash crops and often used with slave labor were called _______ _______________ . .

Answer 19

plantations

Question 20

20. The network of routes between Africa, the Americas, and Europe was called the ________________ trade.

Answer 20

triangular trade

Question 21

21. Places where Indians who became Christians could learn about the Bible and European law, manners, and town life were known as _____________________.

Answer 21

praying towns

Question 22

22. The ______________War was a 1637 war between the Massachusetts Bay colonists and the neighboring Indians in which the colonists ambushed an Indian fort, killed many Indians, and captured and sold the remaining Indians as slaves.

Answer 22

Pequot war

Question 23

23._______________________War was a three-year conflict (1675–78) between the Indians and New England colonists in which at least six hundred colonists and two thousand Indians were killed, including Metacomet.

Answer 23

king Phillip

Question 24

24. The conflict in Virginia between frontier settlers and the colonial government was called _________________.

Answer 24

bacons rebellion

Question 25

25. The local army of a colony was called the __________________________

Answer 25

miltila

Question 26

26. Governors appointed judges, also called _______________________ who held trials, settled disputes, collected taxes, granted licenses, recorded property deeds, and served other public needs.

Answer 26

justice of peace

Question 27

27. In New England the basic unit of government was the _________________________.

Answer 27

township

Question 28

28. What dangers did those on the frontier face?

Answer 28

faced skirmishes with Indians between ethic groups

Question 29

29. Describe the common occupations in the New England colonies.

Answer 29

many became merchants, fisherman, whalers and shipbuilders

Question 30

30. Describe the economic activity of the southern colonies.

Answer 30

grew lots of cash crops and had many plantations and slaves

Question 31

31. Describe the economic activity of the middle colonies.

Answer 31

were know as bread colonies

Question 32

32. Identify two motives of the colonists for wanting to convert the Indians to Christianity.

Answer 32

was generally worried Abt them and wanted them to become civilized