Chapter 4

Question 1

What is subsistence farming?

Answer 1

Growing only enough for yourself

Question 2

What is commercial agriculture?

Answer 2

Farming to make money

Question 3

Why did New England farmers practice subsistence farming?

Answer 3

Long winters and thin, rocky soil

Question 4

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

Answer 4

Shipbuilding and Fishing

Question 5

What is the triangular trade?

Answer 5

A trade system between Africa, the Caribbean, and the American Colonies

Question 6

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

Answer 6

Middle Passage

Question 7

Where was the hub of the shipping trade in America?

Answer 7

North England

Question 8

What is a cash crop?

Answer 8

Food grown in large amonts to sell

Question 9

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

Answer 9

Rice and Tobacco

Question 10

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

Answer 10

Middle Colonies

Question 11

What was the main cash crop in Virginia and Maryland?

Answer 11

Tobacco

Question 12

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

Answer 12

Rice

Question 13

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

Answer 13

They were labor intensive and slaves were used because the owners couldn’t do it all on their own

Question 14

What is supply and demand?

Answer 14

Supply- how much you have

Demand- how bad people want it

Question 15

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

Answer 15

Slave Code

Question 16

How did England view the colonies economically?

Answer 16

An economic resource, a way to make money

Question 17

How do you make money on trade?

Answer 17

You must export more than you import

Question 18

What was important about the Navigation Acts?

Answer 18

It ensured that Engand made more money, by saying the colonist could only use their ships for trade

Question 19

What established a limited government in the 13

the century and inspired the US Constitution?

Answer 19

Magma Carta

Question 20

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

Answer 20

White men who owned property

Question 21

What was the religious revival that swept through the colonies?

Answer 21

The Great Awakening

Question 22

What was the Enlightenment?

Answer 22

Belief that science, knowledge, and reason could improve society

Question 23

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

Answer 23

Poor Richards Alamack

Question 24

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

Answer 24

John Peter Zerge

Question 25

The John Peter Zenger Trial dealt with what personal liberty?

Answer 25

Freedom of the Press

Question 26

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

Answer 26

Ohio River Valley

Question 27

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

Answer 27

Cherokee

Question 28

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

Answer 28

George Wasington

Question 29

What is a militia?

Answer 29

A group of citizens trained to fight in emergencies

Question 30

What did the Albany Plan of Union want to do?

Answer 30

Join the colonist under one rule

Question 31

What was the name of the political cartoon that encouraged the colonies to approve the Albany Plan of Union?

Answer 31

Join or Die

Question 32

What was the name of the war between the French and British in Europe?

Answer 32

The Seven Year War

Question 33

What is the name of the fort that the Cherokee burned down in modern day Tennessee?

Answer 33

Fort Loudoun

Question 34

What was the most important victory for the British in the French and Indian War?

Answer 34

Battle of Quebec

Question 35

What did the Treaty of Paris 1763 do?

Answer 35

Ended the French's power in North America

Question 36

Who was the Ottawa chief who believed the British were threatening their way of life?

Answer 36

Pontiac

Question 37

What did the Proclamation of 1763 do?

Answer 37

Halted the westward expansion passed the Appalachian Mountians, causing people to lose the land they already bought

Question 38

Why were many colonists upset over the Proclamation of 1763?

Answer 38

It caused people to lose the land they already bought fair and square

Question 39

What was the main economic activity in all colonies?

Answer 39

Farming