American nATION

Question 1

subsistence farmers

Answer 1

people that grew enough for their family’s needs

Question 2

surplus

Answer 2

extra, such as food

Question 3

stocks

Answer 3

wooden frames with holes for arms and legs used to punish people for crimes

Question 4

trenchers

Answer 4

a block of wood hollowed out for food

Question 5

cash crops

Answer 5

crops sold for money

Question 6

Breadbasket Colonies

Answer 6

the middle colonies that exported so much grain

Question 7

tenant farmers

Answer 7

farmers who worked the land and paid rent to the landowner

Question 8

backcountry

Answer 8

are in western Maryland and Virginia along the Appalachian Mountains

Question 9

Great Wagon Road

Answer 9

the route to the backcountry

Question 10

tidewater

Answer 10

region of plantations in the coastal plain

Question 11

slave codes

Answer 11

series of laws that controlled behavior of rights and denied them rights

Question 12

racism

Answer 12

the belief that one race is superior to another

Question 13

Middle Passage

Answer 13

the horrible trip of the slave ships from Africa to America

Question 14

public schools

Answer 14

schools that were supported by taxes

Question 15

apprentice

Answer 15

person who learns a trade or craft from a master craftsman

Question 16

gentry

Answer 16

highest social class in the colonists which included wealthy planter, merchants minister and lawyers

Question 17

almanac

Answer 17

book containing calendars and other useful information

Question 18

Poor Richards Almanac

Answer 18

written by Benjamin Franklin

Question 19

Benjamin Franklin

Answer 19

Printer, scientist, inventor, writer, diplomat and stateman

Question 20

triangular trade

Answer 20

colonial trade routes between new england, the west indies, Africa and Europe

Question 21

Puritans taught children to read

Answer 21

so they could read the bible