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Question 1

What was the main cash crop in Georgia and South Carolina?

Answer 1

Rice.

Question 2

What was the main cash crop in Virginia and Maryland?

Answer 2

Tobacco.

Question 3

What was 2 main cash crops of the Middle Colonies?

Answer 3

Wheat and Oats.

Question 4

What were the 2 industries of the New England Colonies?

Answer 4

Shipbuilding and fishing.

Question 5

Why did New England farmers practice subsistence farming?

Answer 5

There was very long winters and the soil was thin and rocky.

Question 6

What was the main economic activity in all colonies?

Answer 6

Farming.

Question 7

What is Representative Government?

Answer 7

A system by which people elect delegates to make laws and conduct government.

Question 8

What are victuals?

Answer 8

Foods.

Question 9

What does it mean to allay?

Answer 9

To reduce in strength.

Question 10

What’s a slave code?

Answer 10

Rules focusing on the behavior and punishment of enslaved people.

Question 11

What was the triangular trade?

Answer 11

Trade route between Britain, West Africa,and the West Indies.

Question 12

What is principal?

Answer 12

Most important.

Question 13

What does it mean to rely?

Answer 13

To depend upon.

Question 14

What is diversity?

Answer 14

A variety. Such as of, national or ethnic groups.

Question 15

What is a cash crop?

Answer 15

A crop that can be old easily in markets.

Question 16

What is subsistence farming?

Answer 16

Producing enough food to meet the needs of their family, with little left over.

Question 17

What does it mean to suspend something?

Answer 17

To set aside or temporarily stop the operation of something.

Question 18

What does it mean to be neutral?

Answer 18

To take no side.

Question 19

What does it mean to convert?

Answer 19

To change the religious beliefs of someone.

Question 20

What is an alliance?

Answer 20

Partnership.

Question 21

Who is the Iroquois Confederacy?

Answer 21

Most powerful Native Americans in Eastern North America.

Question 22

What is the Militia?

Answer 22

A military force made up of ordinary citizens.

Question 23

What does it mean to adapt?

Answer 23

To change in response to a new set of conditions.

Question 24

What is Civic Virtue?

Answer 24

Democratic ideas, practices, and values that form a free society.

Question 25

What is emphasis?

Answer 25

A special stress or indication of importance.

Question 26

What is mercantilism?

Answer 26

An economic theory whose goal is building a state’s wealth and power by increasing exports and accumulating metals in return.

Question 27

What does export mean?

Answer 27

To sell out/ abroad.

Question 28

What does import mean?

Answer 28

To bring in.

Question 29

What does it mean to impose?

Answer 29

To force on others.

Question 30

What is immigration?

Answer 30

The permanent movement of people into one country from different nations illegally.

Question 31

What is epidemic?

Answer 31

An illness that affects large numbers of people.

Question 32

What is an apprentice?

Answer 32

A young person who learns a trade from a skilled crafts person.