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 made to make profit

Question 3

Why did New England farmers practice subsistence farming?

Answer 3

Because of the long winters amd rocky soil

Question 4

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

Answer 4

Wheat and oats

Question 5

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

Answer 5

Ship building and fishing

Question 6

What is the triangular trade?

Answer 6

A system where slaves, crop, and manifactured goods were were traded between Africa, The Carribian, and The American colonies

Question 7

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

Answer 7

The Middle Passage

Question 8

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

Answer 8

Because they were cash crops and you could get alot of money from them

Question 9

Where was the hub of the shipping trade in America?

Answer 9

New England

Question 10

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

Answer 10

The middle colonies

Question 11

What was the main cash crop in Virginia and Maryland?

Answer 11

Tobacco

Question 12

What is supply and demand?

Answer 12

Somthing that controls the price of crops

Question 13

What was important about the Navigation Acts?

Answer 13

That is made sure that england made money off of the colonies

Question 14

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

Answer 14

Rice

Question 15

How did England view the colonies economically?

Answer 15

As an economin resorce

Question 16

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

Answer 16

The magna carta

Question 17

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

Answer 17

Free white men who owned land

Question 18

How do you make money on trade?

Answer 18

Export more than you inport

Question 19

What is a cash crop?

Answer 19

Crops that could be sold in markets

Question 20

What was the religious revival that swept through the colonies?

Answer 20

The great awakenining, it belives that all people were equel.

Question 21

What was the main economic activity in all colonies?

Answer 21

Farming

Question 22

What was the Enlightenment?

Answer 22

The belief that knowlage, sciemce, and reason could improve soiciety

Question 23

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

Answer 23

Poor Richards Almanac

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 Trial dealt with what personal liberty?

Answer 25

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

The Ohio River Valley

Question 27

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

Answer 27

Iroquois

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

GOERGE WASHINGTON

Question 29

What is a militia?

Answer 29

A group of ordinary citizens taugh to fight in emergances (like the natonal guard)

Question 30

What did the Albany Plan of Union want to do?

Answer 30

For the 13 colonys to have one general goverment

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

The 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

The Battle Of Quebec

Question 35

What did the Treaty of Paris 1763 do?

Answer 35

It ended the French and Indian War and is the end of power for the French in NA

Question 36

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

Answer 36

Pontiac (lols the car)

Question 37

What did the Proclamation of 1763 do?

Answer 37

It said that the colonies had to stop explanding west of the Appilachian Mountians to appease Native Americans

Question 38

Why were many colonists upset over the Proclamation of 1763?

Answer 38

Because some of them had already baught land up there