Chapter 4

Question 1

What was the main economic activity in all colonies?

Answer 1

Agriculture

Question 2

What is subsistence farming?

Answer 2

Growing for ones self or family

Question 3

What is commercial agriculture?

Answer 3

Growing for others or buisness

Question 4

Why did New England farmers practice subsistence farming?

Answer 4

Harsh winters and rocky soil

Question 5

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

Answer 5

Ship building and fishing

Question 6

What is the triangular trade?

Answer 6

Country buys from one but sells to another

Trade between Africa and the caribbeans and colonies

Question 7

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

Answer 7

Middle passage

Question 8

Where was the hub of the shipping trade in America?

Answer 8

Middle colonies

Question 9

What is a cash crop?

Answer 9

A crop that can be sold for a lot of money

Question 10

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

Answer 10

Wheats and Oats

Question 11

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

Answer 11

Middle Colonies

Question 12

What was the main cash crop in Virginia and Maryland?

Answer 12

Tobbaco

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

They were labor intensive

Question 15

What is supply and demand?

Answer 15

The urge for supplies for money and to get the supplies

Question 16

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

Answer 16

Slave code

Question 17

How did England view the colonies economically?

Answer 17

As a source of money for their economy

Question 18

How do you make money on trade?

Answer 18

Sell a item higher than the original cost to make profit for euros

Question 19

What was important about the Navigation Acts?

Answer 19

It ensured the 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 Males, Free Males

Question 22

What was the religious revival that swept through the colonies?

Answer 22

The Great Awakening

Question 23

What was the Enlightenment?

Answer 23

Belief that knowledge science and reasons

Question 24

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

Answer 24

Poor Richards Almanauk

Question 25

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

Answer 25

John Peter Zenger

Question 26

The John Peter Zenger Trial dealt with what personal liberty?

Answer 26

Freedom of press

Question 27

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

Answer 27

Ohio Valley

Question 28

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

Answer 28

Iroquios

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

Group of militarized citizens

Question 31

What did the Albany Plan of Union want to do?

Answer 31

Called for one general government for the 13 colonies. Was designed to help the colonies from the French

Question 32

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

Answer 32

Join or Die

Question 33

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

Answer 33

Seven Years war

Question 34

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

Answer 34

Fort Loudoun

Question 35

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

Answer 35

The Battle of Quebec

Question 36

What did the Treaty of Paris 1763 do?

Answer 36

Bring peace with NA but not continue building colonies

Question 37

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

Answer 37

Pontiac

Question 38

What did the Proclamation of 1763 do?

Answer 38

Not let us goto the west

Question 39

Why were many colonists upset over the Proclamation of 1763?

Answer 39

They could not goto the west