Chapter 4 Study Guide

Question 1

What is subsistence farming?

Answer 1

Producing enough to meet the needs of the family

Question 2

What is commercial agriculture?

Answer 2

Is when larger amounts of crops are produced to make a profit

Question 3

Why did New England farmers practice subsistence farming?

Answer 3

Because of long winters and thin, rocky soil

Question 4

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

Answer 4

Shipbuilding and fishing

Question 5

What is the triangular trade?

Answer 5

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

Question 6

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

Answer 6

Middle Passage

Question 7

Where was the hub of the shipping trade in America?

Answer 7

New England

Question 8

What is a cash crop?

Answer 8

Crops that could be sold in markets

Question 9

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

Answer 9

Wheat and Oates

Question 10

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

Answer 10

Middle Colonies

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

Were very labor intensive so slavery increased on these large farms

Question 14

What is supply and demand?

Answer 14

Controls the prices of crops

Question 15

What was the main economic activity in all colonies?

Answer 15

Farming

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

Navigation Acts

Question 19

What was important about the Navigation Acts?

Answer 19

To make sure they made money off of colonial trade

Question 20

What established a limited government in the 13
th
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 Richard’s 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

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

George Washington

Question 29

What is a militia?

Answer 29

A group of citizens trained to fight in emergencies

Question 30

What was the name of the political cartoon that encouraged the colonies to approve the Albany Plan of Union?

Answer 30

Join or Die

Question 31

What was the name of the war between the French and British in Europe?

Answer 31

The seven years war

Question 32

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

Answer 32

Tennessee's Fort Loudoun

Question 33

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

Answer 33

Battle of Quebec

Question 34

What did the Treaty of Paris 1763 do?

Answer 34

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

Question 35

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

Answer 35

Pontiac

Question 36

What did the Proclamation of 1763 do?

Answer 36

Halted western expansion by the settlers west of the Appalachian Mountains to appease the Na's

Question 37

Why were many colonists upset over the Proclamation of 1763?

Answer 37

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

Question 38

The John Peter Zenger Trail dealt with what personal liberty?

Answer 38

Freedom of Press

Question 39

What did the Albany Plan of Union want to do?

Answer 39

Wanted to unite all the colonies under one government to protect them from the french and indians