Chapter 4

Question 1

What was the main economic activity in all colonies?

Answer 1

Agriculture, farming

Question 2

What is subsistence farming?

Answer 2

Growing enough crop for your family but, not for trade.

Question 3

What is commercial agriculture?

Answer 3

Farming where lots of crops are made to be sold.

Question 4

Why did New England farmers practice subsistence farming?

Answer 4

The soil was rocky so it was hard to grow many crops.

Question 5

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

Answer 5

Shipping, and fishing

Question 6

What is the triangular trade?

Answer 6

Three point trading route across Atlantic 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

The New England colonies

Question 9

What is a cash crop?

Answer 9

Crops that could be sold easily in markets.

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

The 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 (why slaves were used to harvest them)?

Answer 14

They were labor intensive crops

Question 15

What is supply and demand?

Answer 15

How much of something you have, and how much people want.

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

England viewed them as a way to make money.

Question 18

How do you make money on trade?

Answer 18

By exporting more than you import.

Question 19

What was important about the Navigation Acts?

Answer 19

It forced colonies to make Britain money by using their ships.

Question 20

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

Answer 20

Albany Plan of Union

Question 21

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

Answer 21

White males who owned land.

Question 22

What was the religious revival that swept through the colonies?

Answer 22

The Awakening

Question 23

What was the Enlightenment?

Answer 23

Belief that knowledge science and reasoning would improve society.

Question 24

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

Answer 24

Poor Richards Almanack

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

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

Citizens trained to fight in case of emergency

Question 31

What did the Albany Plan of Union want to do?

Answer 31

Unite the colonies under one central government

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 seven years war

Question 34

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

Answer 34

Battle of Quebec

Question 35

What did the Treaty of Paris 1763 do?

Answer 35

Ended the war and Frances power in North America

Question 36

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

Answer 36

Pontiac

Question 37

What did the Proclamation of 1763 do?

Answer 37

Stopped westward expansion

Question 38

Why were many colonists upset over the Proclamation of 1763?

Answer 38

Because they owned land and British mulled their purchase

Question 39

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

Answer 39

Fort Loudon