Chapter 4

Question 1

What was the main economic activity in all colonies?

Answer 1

Farming

Question 2

What is subsistence farming?

Answer 2

farmers focus on growing enough food to feed themselves and their families.

Question 3

What is commercial agriculture?

Answer 3

the producer is farming with intent to sell some or even all of their production.

Question 4

Why did New England farmers practice subsistence farming?

Answer 4

The soil is also rocky and not a favorable for growing

Question 5

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

Answer 5

Any kind of fishin and ship building

Question 6

What is the triangular trade?

Answer 6

Three point trading route across alantic ocean

Question 7

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

Answer 7

The 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

It is a crop sold for a proffit

Question 10

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

Answer 10

Tobacco and Rice

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

Tobacco

Question 13

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

Answer 13

Rice

Question 14

What did rice and tobacco have in common

Answer 14

Plantations

Question 15

What is supply and demand?

Answer 15

the amount of a commodity, product, or service available and the desire of buyers for it, considered as factors regulating its price

Question 16

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

Answer 16

Slave codes

Question 17

How did England view the colonies economically?

Answer 17

Viewed as a economic resource

Question 18

How do you make money on trade?

Answer 18

Export mor than you import

Question 19

What was important to the navigation acts

Answer 19

Ensured England made money off of colony trade by restricting trade

Question 20

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

Answer 20

Magna carats

Question 21

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

Answer 21

White men that owned property

Question 22

What was the religious revival that swept through the colonies

Answer 22

The great awakening

Question 23

What was the enlightenment

Answer 23

Belief that knowledge and science 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 almanacs

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

Free 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

Inquios 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

GW

Question 30

What is a militia

Answer 30

A group of citizens trained to fight

Question 31

What did the Albany plan of union want to do

Answer 31

Help colonies defend themselves from the French

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

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&I War?

Answer 35

The battle of Quebec

Question 36

What did the Treaty of Paris 1763 do?

Answer 36

Halted western expansion by settlers west of the am

Question 37

Why were many colonists upset over the Proclamation of 1763?

Answer 37

They had already baught land

Question 38

Why were many colonist upset over the proclamation of 1763

Answer 38

They had already baught land

Question 39

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

Answer 39

Pontiac