Chapter 4

Question 1

What was the main economic activity in all colonies?

Answer 1

Farming

Question 2

What is subsistence farming?

Answer 2

Producing for their families with not enough left to trade (the whole family worked)

Question 3

What is commercial agriculture?

Answer 3

When larger amounts of crops are produced to make a profit

Question 4

Why did New England farmers practice subsistence farming?

Answer 4

There were long and harsh winters and thin rocky soil

Question 5

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

Answer 5

Shipbuilding and fishing

Question 6

What is the triangular trade?

Answer 6

A trade route

Question 7

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

Answer 7

The middle passage

Question 8

What is a cash crop?

Answer 8

Crops that can be sold in markets

Question 9

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

Answer 9

Wheat and Oats

Question 10

What was the main cash crop in Virginia and Maryland?

Answer 10

Tobacco

Question 11

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

Answer 11

Rice

Question 12

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

Answer 12

They were both very labor intensive

Question 13

Where was the hub of the shipping trade in America?

Answer 13

New England

Question 14

What is supply and demand?

Answer 14

Amount of crops (how much they were wanted) and the prices

Question 15

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

Answer 15

Slave codes

Question 16

How did England view the colonies economically?

Answer 16

They were a way to make money

Question 17

How do you make money on trade?

Answer 17

You must export more than you import (sell more than you buy)

Question 18

What was important about the Navigation Acts?

Answer 18

It ensured that England made money off of colonial trade by restricting trade

Question 19

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

Answer 19

Manga Carta

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

A belief that knowledge,science,and reason could improve society

Question 23

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

Answer 23

Poor Richard’s Almanack

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 Confederacy

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

George Washington

Question 29

What is a militia?

Answer 29

A group of citizens trained to fight in emergencies

Question 30

What did the Albany Plan of Union want to do?

Answer 30

Have one government over all 13 colonies

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

Seven years war/French and Indian 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

Battle of Quebec

Question 35

What did the Treaty of Paris 1763 do?

Answer 35

Ends the French and Indian war and is the end of power in North America for the French

Question 36

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

Answer 36

Pontia

Question 37

What did the Proclamation of 1763 do?

Answer 37

Halted the expansion of the colonies

Question 38

Why were many colonists upset over the Proclamation of 1763?

Answer 38

They couldn't get the land they paid for

Question 39

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

Answer 39

The middle colonies