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 enough to meet the needs of the family

Question 3

What is commercial agriculture?

Answer 3

Crops are sold for money

Question 4

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

Answer 4

Shipbuilding and farming

Question 5

What is the triangular trade?

Answer 5

It’s was a system that traded slaves,cropS, and goods between Africa, the Caribbean, 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

Why did New England farmers practice subsistence farming?

Answer 7

Long winters and rocky soil

Question 8

Where was the hub of the shipping trade in America?

Answer 8

Middle colonies

Question 9

What is a cash crop

Answer 9

Crops that can be sold easily

Question 10

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

Answer 10

Tobacco and rice

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

They were labor intensive and it was a good CC.

Question 14

What is supply and demand?

Answer 14

The main process of buying and selling

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

A money power house.

Question 17

How do you make money on trade?

Answer 17

You must export then or import

Question 18

What was important about the Navigation Acts?

Answer 18

It ensures that England made money off of colonial trade by restricting it

Question 19

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

Answer 19

White man who owned property

Question 20

What was the religious revival that swept through the colonies?

Answer 20

The great awakening

Question 21

What was the Enlightenment?

Answer 21

The spread of science, knowledge, and reason

Question 22

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

Answer 22

Poor Richard’s Almanack

Question 23

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

Answer 23

The Magna Carta

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

The freedom of Press

Question 26

Where is the land area that the British and French fought over because of the fur trade?

Answer 26

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

Washington (furture president )

Question 29

What is a militia?

Answer 29

Trained citizens

Question 30

What did the Albany Plan of Union want to do?

Answer 30

To help colonies defend themselves

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

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 Loudon

Question 34

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

Answer 34

The battle of Quebec

Question 35

What did the Treaty of Paris 1763 do?

Answer 35

End 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

Chief Pontiac

Question 37

What did the Proclamation of 1763 do?

Answer 37

Stop the colonist from going west

Question 38

Why were many colonists upset over the Proclamation of 1763?

Answer 38

They had to listen to a law and if you had land to far west you where forced to sell it and move.

Question 39

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

Answer 39

NE