Chapter 4

Question 1

What is subsistence farming?

Answer 1

Producing enough crops to meet the needs of the family.

Question 2

What is commercial agriculture?

Answer 2

Is when larger amounts of crops are produced to make a profit.

Question 3

Why did New England farmers practice subsistence farming?

Answer 3

Cause of the long winters and thin rocky soil.

Question 4

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

Answer 4

Fishing and shipbuilding

Question 5

What is the triangular trade?

Answer 5

A system of trade 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 oats

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

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

Both were very labor intensive so slavery increaed on large farms

Question 14

What is supply and demand?

Answer 14

Controls the price of crops

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 an economic resource

Question 17

How do you make money on trade?

Answer 17

You must export more than you import

Question 18

What was important about the Navigation Acts?

Answer 18

The navigation act ensured that england made money off colonial trade

Question 19

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

Answer 19

The Magna Carta

Question 20

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

Answer 20

White men who owned land

Question 21

What was the religious revival that swept through the colonies?

Answer 21

The great awakening

Question 22

What was the main economic activity in all colonies?

Answer 22

Farming

Question 23

What was the Enlightenment?

Answer 23

Belief that knowlage , science, and reason could improve society.

Question 24

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

Answer 24

Poor richards almanac

Question 25

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

Answer 25

John peter zenger

Question 26

The John Peter Zenger Trial dealt with what personal liberty?

Answer 26

Freedom of press

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 confederacy

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 group of citizens trained to fight in emergencies

Question 31

What did the Albany Plan of Union want to do?

Answer 31

It called for one general government for the 13 colonies

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

Fench indian war or 7 years war

Question 34

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

Answer 34

Fort Louden

Question 35

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

Answer 35

When william pitt became prime minister and oversaw the war effort from london

Question 36

What did the Treaty of Paris 1763 do?

Answer 36

Ends the french and indian war and the end of power in North America for the French

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

Halted western expansion by settlers west of the applachian mountains to appease the native americans.

Question 39

Why were many colonists upset over the Proclamation of 1763?

Answer 39

Cause some of them had already bought land west of the applachin mountains