Chapter 4

Question 1

What is subsistance farming

Answer 1

Producing enough to make the needs of the family

Question 2

Why did England farmers practice subsistance farming

Answer 2

They were smaller than those in the South because of long winters and thin, rocky soil

Question 3

What was the main economic activity in all the colonies

Answer 3

Farming

Question 4

What is triangler trade

Answer 4

Was a system in which slaves, crops, and manufactured goods

Question 5

What is commercial agriculture

Answer 5

Larger amounts of crops are produced to make a profit

Question 6

Where was the hub of the shipping trade in America

Answer 6

New England

Question 7

What were the two main industries of the New England colonies

Answer 7

Shipbuilding and fishing

Question 8

What were the two main cash crops of the Middle Colonies

Answer 8

Wheat and Oats

Question 9

What was the name of the slave transporting lag of the Triangler Trade

Answer 9

Middle Passage

Question 10

What was the main cash crop in Virginia and Maryland

Answer 10

Tobacco

Question 11

What is a cash crop

Answer 11

A crop that can sold

Question 12

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

Answer 12

They were both intensive labor crops

Question 13

Which colonial region was known for its diverse populationof the German and Scotch-Irish citizens

Answer 13

Middle Colonies

Question 14

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

Answer 14

Slave Codes

Question 15

What was the main cash crop in Georgia and South Carolina

Answer 15

Rice

Question 16

How do you make money on trade

Answer 16

You must export more than you import

Question 17

What is supply and demand

Answer 17

It controls the prices of the crops

Question 18

What established a limited government in the 13th century and inspired the U.S. Constituion

Answer 18

The Magna Carta

Question 19

How did New England view the colonies economically

Answer 19

Economic resource

Question 20

What was the religious revival that swept through the colonies

Answer 20

The Great Awakening

Question 21

What was important about the Navigation Acts

Answer 21

It ensured that England made money off of trade

Question 22

What was the Enlightment

Answer 22

Belief that knowledge, science, and reason could improve society

Question 23

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

Answer 23

John Peter Zenger

Question 24

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

Answer 24

White men who owned property, but not all free men

Question 25

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

Answer 25

Ohio River Valley

Question 26

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

Answer 26

Poor Richards Alminack

Question 27

Who was sent to tell the French to leave the Ohio River Valleyand struck the first blow against the French

Answer 27

George Washington

Question 28

The John Peter Zenger Trial dealt with what personal liberty

Answer 28

Freedom of the press

Question 29

What did the Albany Plan of Union want to do

Answer 29

Help the colonies defend themselves from the French

Question 30

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

Answer 30

Iroquis Confederacy

Question 31

What was the name of the war beween the French and the British in Europe

Answer 31

The Seven Years Wars

Question 32

What is a militia

Answer 32

A group of citizens trained to fight in emergicies

Question 33

What was the most important victory for the British in the F&I War

Answer 33

Would take place in the British Quebec

Question 34

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

Answer 34

Join or Die

Question 35

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

Answer 35

Pontiac

Question 36

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

Answer 36

Fort Loundoun

Question 37

Why were many colonists upset over the Proclamation of 1763

Answer 37

They had already bought land

Question 38

What did the Treaty of Paris 1763 do

Answer 38

It ended the French and Indian War

Question 39

What did the Proclamation of 1763 do

Answer 39

It halted western expansion by the settlers west of the Appalachian Mountains