Chapter 4

Question 1

What is subsistence farming?

Answer 1

Farming just enough to feed your family

Question 2

What is commercial agriculture?

Answer 2

farming for a profit

Question 3

Why did New England farmers practice subsistence farming?

Answer 3

The soil wasn’t good for farming

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

Trade between North America, Africa, and Great Britan

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 are sold easily

Question 9

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

Answer 9

Wheat and flour

Question 10

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

Answer 10

Middle colonies

Question 11

What was the main cash crop in Virginia and Maryland?

Answer 11

Tobacco and rice

Question 12

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

Answer 12

Tobacco,rice and indigo

Question 13

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

Answer 13

They are both work intensive

Question 14

What is supply and demand?

Answer 14

They control the prices of crops

Question 15

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

Answer 15

The 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

They were efforts to put the theory of mercantilism into actual practice.

Question 19

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

Answer 19

Proclamation of 1763

Question 20

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

Answer 20

White men who owned property

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 reson could improve society

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 Trail 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

Louisiana

Question 27

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

Answer 27

Iroquois

Question 28

What was the main economic activity in all colonies?

Answer 28

Gaining land

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

Citizens that are in a military force

Question 31

What did the Albany Plan of Union want to do?

Answer 31

Help the colonists defend themselves from the french