Chapter 4

Question 1

What is subsistence farming?

Answer 1

Producing enough to meet the needs of the family

Question 2

What is commercial agriculture?

Answer 2

When larger amounts of crops produced to make a profit

Question 3

Why did New England farmers practice subsistence farming?

Answer 3

to where they could save money

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 system in whichlaves,crops,and manactered goods were traded between Africa,he Caribbean,and the American colonies

Question 6

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

Answer 6

The middle passage

Question 7

Where was the hub of the shipping trade in America?

Answer 7

New england

Question 8

What is a cash crop?

Answer 8

where you sell crops for money

Question 9

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

Answer 9

wheat and oats

Question 10

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

Answer 10

middle colonial region

Question 11

What was the main cash crop in Virginia and Maryland?

Answer 11

tobacco

Question 12

What was the main economic activity in all colonies?

Answer 12

Farming

Question 13

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

Answer 13

rice

Question 14

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

Answer 14

labor intisive

Question 15

What is supply and demand?

Answer 15

supply-how much you have of sominthing

demand-how bad people want sominthing

Question 16

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

Answer 16

t was illegal to teach a slave to read and wright

Question 17

How did England view the colonies economically?

Answer 17

economic resource

Question 18

How do you make money on trade?

Answer 18

you must export more than import

Question 19

What was important about the Navigation Acts?

Answer 19

ensured that england made money off of colonial trade

Question 20

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

Answer 20

the magna carta

Question 21

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

Answer 21

white men who owned operty

Question 22

What was the religious revival that swept through the colonies?

Answer 22

the great awakning

Question 23

What was the Enlightenment?

Answer 23

belief that knowledge,science,and reason could improve society