RJ 7th Grade History

Question 1

Subsistence farming

Answer 1

Farming in which only enough food to feed one’s family is produced

Question 2

cash crop

Answer 2

Farm crop raised to be sold for money

Question 3

overseer

Answer 3

Person who supervises a large operation or its workers.

Question 4

Middle Passage

Answer 4

the sea journey undertaken by slave ships from West Africa to the West Indies.

Question 5

indentured servant

Answer 5

Laborer who agreed to work without pay for a certain period of time in exchange for passage to America.

Question 6

apprentice

Answer 6

Assistant who is assigned to learn the trade of a skilled craftsman.

Question 7

triangular trade

Answer 7

A trade route that exchanged goods between the West Indies, the American colonies, and West Africa.

Question 8

debtor

Answer 8

Person or country that owes money.

Question 9

boycott

Answer 9

to refuse t buy items from a particular country (p.134); to refuse to use in order to show disapproval or force acceptance of one’s terms

Question 10

repeal

Answer 10

to cancel an act or law

Question 11

propaganda

Answer 11

ideas or information designed and spread to influence opinion

Question 12

militia

Answer 12

a group of civilian trained to fight in emergencies (pp. 118, 142)

Question 13

loyalist

Answer 13

American colonists who remained loyal to Britain and opposed the war for independence (p. 145)

Question 14

patriots

Answer 14

American colonists who were determined to fight the British until American independence was won (p. 145)

Question 15

mercenary

Answer 15

paid solder who serves in the army of a foreign country (p. 164)

Question 16

guerrilla warfare

Answer 16

a hit-and-run technique used in fighting a war; fighting by small bands of warriors using tactics such as sudden ambushes (pp. 180, 867)