Chapter 4- Life In The American Colonies

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 families needs.

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

They had thin rocky soil that wasn’t good for farming.

Question 5

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

Answer 5

Ship building and fishing

Question 6

What is the triangular trade?

Answer 6

a system in which slaves, crops, and manufactured goods were traded between Africa, the Caribbean, and the American colonies.

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

crops that could be sold in markets

Question 10

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

Answer 10

Rice and Tobacco

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

these crops were very labor intensive

Question 15

What is supply and demand?

Answer 15

Supply and Demand controls the prices of crops.

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

As an economic resource

Question 18

How do you make money on trade?

Answer 18

You must export more than you import

Question 19

What was important about the Navigation Acts?

Answer 19

They ensure that England made money off colony trade by restricting trade.

Question 20

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

Answer 20

The Magna Carta

Question 21

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

Answer 21

White men who 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,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 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

Freedom of the 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

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

One general government for the 13 colonies to 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

The 7 Years 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

Ended the French and Indian war.

Question 37

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

Answer 37

Pontiac/ Ottawa Chief

Question 38

What did the Proclamation of 1763 do?

Answer 38

Halted western expansion by the settlers west of the Appalachian Mtns.

Question 39

Why were many colonists upset over the Proclamation of 1763?

Answer 39

Some of them had already bought land west of the Appalachians and now Britain would ignore their claims.