Chapter 4 Flashcards
What was the main economic activity in all colonies?
Farming
What is subsistence farming?
Producing enough to meet the needs of the family
What is commercial agriculture?
Crops are sold for money
What were the two main industries of the New England colonies?
Shipbuilding and farming
What is the triangular trade?
It’s was a system that traded slaves,cropS, and goods between Africa, the Caribbean, and the American colonies.
What was the name of the slave transporting leg of the Triangular Trade?
The middle passage
Why did New England farmers practice subsistence farming?
Long winters and rocky soil
Where was the hub of the shipping trade in America?
Middle colonies
What is a cash crop
Crops that can be sold easily
What were the two main cash crops of the Middle Colonies?
Tobacco and rice
What was the main cash crop in Virginia and Maryland?
Tobacco
What was the main cash crop in Georgia and South Carolina?
Rice
What did rice and tobacco have in common (why slaves were used to harvest them)?
They were labor intensive and it was a good CC.
What is supply and demand?
The main process of buying and selling
What were the strict rules governing the behavior and punishment of slaves in the colonies?
Slave codes
How did England view the colonies economically?
A money power house.
How do you make money on trade?
You must export then or import
What was important about the Navigation Acts?
It ensures that England made money off of colonial trade by restricting it
Who was allowed to vote in the mid 1700’s in the colonies?
White man who owned property
What was the religious revival that swept through the colonies?
The great awakening
What was the Enlightenment?
The spread of science, knowledge, and reason
What was the name of the book Benjamin Franklin wrote after being inspired by the Enlightenment?
Poor Richard’s Almanack
What established a limited government in the 13th century and inspired the US Constitution?
The Magna Carta
Who was the newspaper publisher that was charged with a crime for accusing the governor of New York of being
corrupt?
John Peter Zenger
The John Peter Zenger Trial dealt with what personal liberty?
The freedom of Press
Where is the land area that the British and French fought over because of the fur trade?
Ohio River Valley
What was the most powerful group of Native Americans in the East?
Iroquois Confederacy
Who was sent to tell the French to leave the Ohio River Valley and struck the first blow against the French?
Washington (furture president )
What is a militia?
Trained citizens
What did the Albany Plan of Union want to do?
To help colonies defend themselves
What was the name of the political cartoon that encouraged the colonies to approve the Albany Plan of Union?
Join or die
What was the name of the war between the French and British in Europe?
French and Indian war
What is the name of the fort that the Cherokee burned down in modern day Tennessee?
Fort Loudon
What was the most important victory for the British in the F&I War?
The battle of Quebec
What did the Treaty of Paris 1763 do?
End power in North America for the French
Who was the Ottawa chief who believed the British were threatening their way of life?
Chief Pontiac
What did the Proclamation of 1763 do?
Stop the colonist from going west
Why were many colonists upset over the Proclamation of 1763?
They had to listen to a law and if you had land to far west you where forced to sell it and move.
Which colonial region was known for its diverse population of German and Scotch-Irish citizens?
New England
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