Chapter 4

Question 0

What is subsistence farming?

Answer 0

Producing just enough to meet immediate needs

Question 1

What was the main economic activity in all colonies?

Answer 1

Farming

Question 2

What is commercial agriculture?

Answer 2

When large amounts of crops are produced to make a profit

Question 3

Why did New England farmers practice subsistence farming?

Answer 3

Farms in NE were smaller than those in the south

Question 4

What were the two main industries of the New England colonies?

Answer 4

Shipbuilding and fishing

Question 5

What is the triangular trade?

Answer 5

Trade route between three destinations

Question 6

What were the main items traded in the Triangular Trade?

Answer 6

Sugar, molasses, and slaves

Question 7

What was the name of the slave transporting leg of the Triangular Trade?

Answer 7

Middle passage

Question 8

Where was the hub of the shipping trade in America?

Answer 8

New England

Question 9

What is a cash crop?

Answer 9

Crops that could be sold in markets

Question 10

What were the two main cash crops of the Middle Colonies?

Answer 10

Wheat and oats

Question 11

Which colonial region was known for its diverse population of German and Scotch-Irish citizens?

Answer 11

Middle Colonies

Question 12

What was the main cash crop in Virginia and Maryland?

Answer 12

Tobacco

Question 13

What was the main cash crop in Georgia and South Carolina?

Answer 13

Rice

Question 14

What did rice and tobacco have in common (why slaves were used to harvest them)?

Answer 14

Very labor intensive so slavery increased

Question 15

What is supply and demand?

Answer 15

Controls the prices of crops

Question 16

What is the region of the Southern colonies where the plantations resided?

Answer 16

Tidewater

Question 17

What were the strict rules governing the behavior and punishment of slaves in the colonies?

Answer 17

Slave Codes

Question 18

How did England view the colonies economically?

Answer 18

Economic resource

Question 19

How do you make money on trade?

Answer 19

You must export more than you import

Question 20

What were the Navigation Acts?

Answer 20

Were passed by England to restrict trade and ensure they make money

Question 21

What established a limited government in the 13th

century and inspired the US Constitution?

Answer 21

Magna Carta

Question 22

Who was allowed to vote in the mid 1700’s in the colonies?

Answer 22

White men who owned property

Question 23

What was the religious revival that swept through the colonies?

Answer 23

The Great Awakening

Question 24

What was the Enlightenment?

Answer 24

Belief that knowledge, science, and reason could improve society

Question 25

What was the name of the book Benjamin Franklin wrote after being inspired by the Enlightenment?

Answer 25

Poor Richard's Almanak

Question 26

Who was the newspaper publisher that was charged with a crime for accusing the governor of New York of being corrupt?

Answer 26

John Peter Zenger

Question 27

Where is the land area that the British and French fought over because of the fur trade?

Answer 27

Ohio River Valley

Question 28

What was the most powerful group of Native Americans in the East?

Answer 28

Iroquois

Question 29

Who was sent to tell the French to leave the Ohio River Valley and struck the first blow against the French?

Answer 29

George Washington

Question 30

What is a militia?

Answer 30

A military force made up of ordinary citizens

Question 31

What did the Albany Plan of Union want to do?

Answer 31

Join the colonies under one government

Question 32

What was the name of the political cartoon that encouraged the colonies to approve the Albany Plan of Union?

Answer 32

Join or Die

Question 33

What was the name of the war between the French and British in Europe?

Answer 33

Seven Years War or French and Indian War

Question 34

What is the name of the fort that the Cherokee burned down in modern day Tennessee?

Answer 34

Loudoun

Question 35

Who oversaw the colonial war effort in London and was the cause of the British turnaround?

Answer 35

William Pitt

Question 36

What was the most important victory for the British in the F&I War?

Answer 36

Battle of Quebec

Question 37

What did the Treaty of Paris 1763 do?

Answer 37

It ended the French and Indian War

Question 38

Who was the Ottawa chief who believed the British were threatening their way of life?

Answer 38

Pontiac

Question 39

What did the Proclamation of 1763 do?

Answer 39

Halted western expansion by the settlers west of the Appalachian Mountains to appease the Native Americans