Chapter 4

Question 1

What is subsistence farming?

Answer 1

Producing enough to meet the needs of the family.

Question 2

What is commercial agriculture?

Answer 2

When larger amounts of crops are produced to make a profit.

Question 3

Why did New England farmers practice subsistence farming?

Answer 3

Long winters and thin, rocky soil.

Question 4

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

Answer 4

Shipbuilding and fishing.

Question 5

What was the main economic activity in all colonies?

Answer 5

Farming

Question 6

What is the triangular trade?

Answer 6

System in which slaves, crops, and manufactured goods were traded between Africa, the Caribbean, and American colonies.

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 oates🍞

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

Tobbaco

Question 13

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

Answer 13

Rice🍚

Question 14

What is supply and demand?

Answer 14

Controls prices of crops and goods⬆️⬇️

Question 15

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

Answer 15

Slave Code

Question 16

How did England view the colonies economically?

Answer 16

As a resource🌼

Question 17

How do you make money on trade?

Answer 17

Export more than you import ◀️▶️

Question 18

What was important about the Navigation Acts?

Answer 18

Passed by England to restrict trade and ensure they make money. ⬛️

Question 19

What established a limited government in the 13th century and inspired the US Constitution?

Answer 19

Magna Carta 📜

Question 20

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

Answer 20

White men who owned property could vote👱🏻

Question 21

What was the religious revival that swept through the colonies?

Answer 21

The Great Awakening 😴

Question 22

What was the Enlightenment?

Answer 22

This was a belief that knowledge, science, and reason could improve society.

Question 23

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

Answer 23

Poor Richard’s Almanack📓

Question 24

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

Answer 24

John Peter Zenger

Question 25

The John Peter Zenger Trail dealt with what personal liberty?

Answer 25

The Freedom of the Press📰📷

Question 26

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

Answer 26

Ohio River Valley

Question 27

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

Answer 27

Iroquois Confredacy🔃

Question 28

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

Answer 28

George Washington 👩

Question 29

What is a militia?

Answer 29

Group of citzen trained to fight in emergenices

Question 30

What did the Albany Plan of Union want to do?

Answer 30

Help colonies defend themselves from the French

Question 31

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

Answer 31

Join or Die💀

Question 32

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

Answer 32

7 Year War

Question 33

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

Answer 33

Fort Loudoun🏡

Question 34

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

Answer 34

Battle of Quebec

Question 35

What did the Treaty of Paris 1763 do?

Answer 35

Ends French and Indian War

Question 36

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

Answer 36

Pontiac

Question 37

What did the Proclamation of 1763 do?

Answer 37

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

Question 38

Why were many colonists upset over the Proclamation of 1763?

Answer 38

They already bought land west of Appalachin Mountains and had to give it up 😨😭

Question 39

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

Answer 39

Because it was a labor intensive crop