Chapter 4

Question 1

What is subsistence farming?

Answer 1

Producing crops to meet the needsof your family

Question 2

What is commercial agriculture?

Answer 2

Growing crops and selling them for profits

Question 3

Why did New England farmers practice subsistence farming?

Answer 3

The land was too small and they had thin rocky soil

Question 4

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

Answer 4

Ship building and Fishing

Question 5

What is the triangular trade?

Answer 5

A system in which slaves, crops, and manufactured goods were traded between Africa, the Carribean, and the American colonies

Question 6

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

Answer 6

The Middle Passage

Question 7

Where was the hub of the shipping trade in America?

Answer 7

New England

Question 8

What is a cash crop?

Answer 8

Crops that could be sold in markets

Question 9

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

Answer 9

Wheat and Oates

Question 10

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

Answer 10

The middle colonies/middle region

Question 11

What was the main cash crop in Virginia and Maryland?

Answer 11

Tobacco

Question 12

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

Answer 12

Rice

Question 13

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

Answer 13

They were very Labor Intensive

Question 14

What is supply and demand?

Answer 14

Controls the prices of crops.

Less supply= more money

More supply= less money

Question 15

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

Answer 15

Slave Codes

Question 16

How did England view the colonies economically?

Answer 16

Economic Resource (way to make money)

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

It ensured that England made money of colonial trade

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
• owned land
• not all free men 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

The 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 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 Confederacy

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 (21)

Question 29

What is a militia?

Answer 29

A group of citizens that were trained to fight in emergencies

Question 30

What did the Albany Plan of Union want to do?

Answer 30

Designed to help the colonies defend themselves from the French

Question 31

What was the main economic activity in all colonies?

Answer 31

Farming

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

The French and Indian war

Question 34

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

Answer 34

Fort Loudoun

Question 35

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

Answer 35

The Battle of Quebec

Question 36

What did the Treaty of Paris 1763 do?

Answer 36

It ended the french and indian war

Question 37

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

Answer 37

Pontiac

Question 38

What did the Proclamation of 1763 do?

Answer 38

It made the colonists stop expanding New England west and if their was land past the border you lost it and didnt get anything in return.

Question 39

Why were many colonists upset over the Proclamation of 1763?

Answer 39

Some of the colonists had bought land west of the Appalachians and wNted to continue to mave farther and farther west