Chapter 4 Study Guide

Question 1

What is subsistence farming?

Answer 1

Pruducing enough to meet tge needs of the family

Question 2

What is commercial agriculture?

Answer 2

Farming to make money or profits

Question 3

Why did New England farmers practice subsistence farming?

Answer 3

Because there were long winters and the soil was thin and rocky

Question 4

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

Answer 4

Ship building and fishing

Question 5

What is the triangular trade?

Answer 5

The Triangular Trade was a system in which slaves, crops, and manufactured goods were traded between Africa, the Caribbean, and American colonies

Question 6

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

Answer 6

The 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 Oats

Question 10

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

Answer 10

The Middle Colonies

Question 11

What was the main cash crop in Virginia and Maryland?

Answer 11

Tabacco

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 Intesive Crops

Question 14

What is supply and demand?

Answer 14

Supply is how much you have and demand is how bad people want it, they control the prices of crops and goods

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 viewed them as an economic resource( a way to make money)

Question 17

How do you make money on trade?

Answer 17

You must export more than you import

Question 18

What was important about the Navigation Acts?

Answer 18

It ensured that England made money from colonial trade

Question 19

What established a limited government in the 13th

century and inspired the US Constitution?

Answer 19

The Magna 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

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 Trail 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

The 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 emergancies

Question 30

What did the Albany Plan of Union want to do?

Answer 30

Unite all the colonies under one goverment to protect them from the French and the Indians

Question 31

What was the main economic activity in all colonies?

Answer 31

Farming

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

When they took over Quebec( The battle of Quebec)

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

It gave the Indians the land that they took from the French and the Ohio River Valley

Question 37

Why were many colonists upset over the Proclamation of 1763?

Answer 37

Because some people had already bought land and they said that they cant have it and have to go back to the colonies

Question 38

What did the Treaty of Paris 1763 do?

Answer 38

It gave the land that France had and the Ohio River Valley to England

Question 39

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

Answer 39

Fort Loudoun