HistoryC4.1-4.2Dunbar

Question 1

subsistence farming

Answer 1

farming that produces just enough to feed one’s family

Question 2

triangular trade

Answer 2

trade between Britain, Africa, & American colonies that formed a triangle to benefit Britain

Question 3

Middle Passage

Answer 3

part of the Triangular Trade when enslaved Africans were shipped to the Americas

Question 4

cash crop

Answer 4

farm crop raised to be sold for money

Question 5

Tidewater

Answer 5

a region of flat, low-lying plains along the southern seacoast; location of most of the large southern plantations

Question 6

backcountry

Answer 6

a region of hills & forests west of the Tidewater; location of small southern farms

Question 7

slave code

Answer 7

strict rules that governed the behavior & punishment of enslaved Africans

Question 8

export

Answer 8

sell abroad (exits)

Question 9

import

Answer 9

buy from abroad (bring in)

Question 10

Navigation Acts

Answer 10

laws that directed trade between England & the colonies to guarantee that only England benefited from trade with the colonies; prevented colonists from using foreign ships & from sending certain products outside England’s empire

Question 11

charter colonies

Answer 11

colony established by a group of settlers who had been given a formal document, or charter, allowing them to settle

Question 12

proprietary colonies

Answer 12

colony in which the owner, or proprietor, owned all the land & controlled the government

Question 13

royal colonies

Answer 13

colony directly ruled by Britain & run by a governor & council appointed by the king

Question 14

Great Awakening

Answer 14

a religious revival that swept through the colonies from the 1720s through the 1740s & led to the formation of many new churches

Question 15

Enlightenment

Answer 15

began in Europe & based on the idea that knowledge, reason, & science could improve society; influenced colonists in the mid-1700s & led to an increased interest in science

Question 16

Benjamin Franklin

Answer 16

best-known American scientist