Chapter 4

Question 0

What is subsistence farming?

Answer 0

Farmers focus. On having enough food for their selfs

Question 1

What was the main economic activity in all colonies?

Answer 1

Farming

Question 2

What is commercial agriculture?

Answer 2

Where farmers grow enough for there selfs

Question 3

Why did New England farmers practice subsistence farming?

Answer 3

Because they didn’t have good soil to grow crops.so they only growled enough for their selfs

Question 4

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

Answer 4

Manufacturing and trade.

Question 5

What is the triangular trade?

Answer 5

Where you have three trade routes and they make a triangle

Question 6

What were the main items traded in the Triangular Trade?

Answer 6

Rum,slaves,and wood,also sugar and molasses

Question 7

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

Answer 7

Slave trad

Question 8

Where was the hub of the shipping trade in America?

Answer 8

New York

Question 9

What is a cash crop?

Answer 9

a crop produced for its commercial value rather than for use by the grower.

Question 10

What were the two main cash crops of the Middle Colonies?

Answer 10

Sugar and tobacco

Question 11

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

Answer 11

Middle colonies(New York mainly)

Question 12

What was the main cash crop in Virginia and Maryland?

Answer 12

Tobacco

Question 13

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

Answer 13

Cotton and sugarcane.

Question 14

What did rice and tobacco have in common (why slaves were used to harvest them)?

Answer 14

Both were hard to pick.because white people thought that they were better than black people so they made black people into salves.so they could all the hard work.

Question 15

What is supply and demand?

Answer 15

It is when people won’t something new,which that is demand.supply is when there is little of it.or a bunch of it And the price goes down with the demand.

Question 16

What is the region of the Southern colonies where the plantations resided?

Answer 16

Near the sea shore

Question 17

What were the strict rules governing the behavior and punishment of slaves in the colonies?

Answer 17

Slave code

Question 18

How did England view the colonies economically?

Answer 18

Making it where there the British economy growing

Question 19

How do you make money on trade?

Answer 19

By making it and then you sell it to so done else in another country

Question 20

What were the Navigation Acts?

Answer 20

a series of laws that restricted the use of foreign ships for trade between Britain and its colonies.

Question 21

What established a limited government in the 13th century and inspired the US Constitution?

Answer 21

Magna Carta

Question 22

Who was allowed to vote in the mid 1700’s in the colonies?

Answer 22

White men,who owned land

Question 23

What was the religious revival that swept through the colonies?

Answer 23

Great awakening

Question 24

What was the Enlightenment?

Answer 24

Where people started going towards the scientific method,meaning creating more technology

Question 25

What was the name of the book Benjamin Franklin wrote after being inspired by the Enlightenment?

Answer 25

Poor Richard

Question 26

Who was the newspaper publisher that was charged with a crime for accusing the governor of New York of being corrupt?

Answer 26

John Peter Zanger

Question 27

Where is the land area that the British and French fought over because of the fur trade?

Answer 27

Ohio River Valley

Question 28

What was the most powerful group of Native Americans in the East?

Answer 28

The Iroquois

Question 29

Who was sent to tell the French to leave the Ohio River Valley and struck the first blow against the French?

Answer 29

George Washington

Question 30

What is a militia?

Answer 30

People that are not in the army but,on hand when neaded,aka,USA coast guard