Chapter 4

Question 1

What was the main economic activity in all colonies?

Answer 1

Agriculture

Question 2

What is subsistence farming?

Answer 2

Subsistence agriculture is self-sufficiency farming in which the farmers focus on growing enough food to feed themselves and their families. …

Question 3

What is commercial agriculture?

Answer 3

They are participating in commerce, thus the name “commercial farming.”

Question 4

Why did New England farmers practice subsistence farming?

Answer 4

. The soil is also rocky and not a favorable for growing. The soil was more favorable in the southern and middle colonies.

Question 5

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

Answer 5

Grain mills, sawmills, and shipbuilding

Question 6

What is the triangular trade?

Answer 6

a multilateral system of trading in which a country pays for its imports from one country by its exports to another.

Question 7

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

Answer 7

The first leg of the triangle was from a European port to Africa, in which ships carried supplies for sale and trade, such as copper, cloth, trinkets, slave beads, guns and ammunition. When the ship arrived, its cargo would be sold or bartered for slaves.

Question 8

Where was the hub of the shipping trade in America?

Answer 8

New England.

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

tobacco, indigo, cotton, and rice

Question 11

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

Answer 11

North America

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

Tobacco

Question 14

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

Answer 14

These crops required labor

Question 15

What is supply and demand?

Answer 15

the amount of a commodity, product, or service available and the desire of buyers for it, considered as factors regulating its price.

Question 16

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

Answer 16

Slaves weren’t allowed to learn how to read or right

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 use two colonies and say one is willing to pay more than the other

Question 19

What was important about the Navigation Acts?

Answer 19

Navigation Acts. The Navigation Acts were efforts to put the theory of mercantilism into actual practice. Beginning in 1650, Parliament acted to combat the threat of the rapidly growing Dutch carrying trade. Later laws were passed in 1651, 1660, 1662, 1663, 1670 and 1673.

Question 20

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

Answer 20

Magna Carta and the United States …

Question 21

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

Answer 21

Men and land owener who were men

Question 22

What was the religious revival that swept through the colonies?

Answer 22

Although a deist himself, Franklin was curious about the religious revival that swept through the colonies from the 1740s into the 1770s. The Great Awakening and its impact.

Question 23

What was the Enlightenment?

Answer 23

The Enlightenment was an intellectual and philosophical movement which dominated the world of ideas in Europe during the 18th century, The Century of Philosophy.

Question 24

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

Answer 24

Poor Richard’s Almanack

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

important precedent in free speech cases.

Question 27

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

Answer 27

Green Bay

Question 28

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

Answer 28

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

a military force that is raised from the civil population to supplement a regular army in an emergency.
a military force that engages in rebel or terrorist activities, typically in opposition to a regular army.
all able-bodied civilians eligible by law for military service.

Question 31

What did the Albany Plan of Union want to do?

Answer 31

The Albany Plan of Union was a plan to place the British North American colonies under a more centralized government. On July 10, 1754, representatives from seven of the British North American colonies adopted the plan.

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 year war

Question 34

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

Answer 34

Fort Necessity

Question 35

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

Answer 35

Battle of Quebec

Question 36

What did the Treaty of Paris 1763 do?

Answer 36

The Treaty of Paris of 1763 ended the French and Indian War/Seven Years’ War between Great Britain and France, as well as their respective allies. In the terms of the treaty, France gave up all its territories in mainland North America, effectively ending any foreign military threat to the British colonies there.

Question 37

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

Answer 37

Pontiac’s

Question 38

What did the Proclamation of 1763 do?

Answer 38

That forbade colonial settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains. In so doing, he hoped to placate Native Americans who had sided against him during the recently concluded Seven Years’ War.

Question 39

Why were many colonists upset over the Proclamation of 1763?

Answer 39

settlement west of the Appalachian Mountain range. Furthermore, those who had already settled in the region were required to relocate to the eastern side of the Appalachians.