Chapter 4 Packet Questions

Question 0

What is the triangular trade?

Answer 0

Because the routes that were used formed a triangle, Between the West Indies, The colonies, and Britain

Question 1

What is subsistence farming?

Answer 1

Farmers that produced only just enough goods for the needs of their own family

Question 2

What is a cash crop?

Answer 2

Crops that could be sold easily in markets on the colonies and overseas

Question 3

What is diversity?

Answer 3

Cultural variety

Question 4

What is an overseer?

Answer 4

Someone who oversees the slaves on a plantation

Question 5

What is an import?

Answer 5

To buy goods from foreign markets

Question 6

What is a proprietary colony?

Answer 6

A colony run by individuals or groups whom land was granted

Question 7

What is literacy?

Answer 7

The ability to read and write

Question 8

What is an alliance?

Answer 8

A close association of nations or other groups, formed to advance common interests and causes

Question 9

What is Tidewater?

Answer 9

A region of flat, low-lying plains along the sea coast, had many plantations

Question 10

What is mercantilism?

Answer 10

The theory that a state’s or nation’s power depended on its wealth

Question 11

What is smuggling?

Answer 11

Illegally trading with other countries

Question 12

What is a royal colony?

Answer 12

A colony run by a governed and a council appointed by the king or queen

Question 13

What is a militia?

Answer 13

A group of civilians trained to fight in emergencies

Question 14

What is a speculator?

Answer 14

A person who risks money in order to make large profits

Question 15

What is backcountry?

Answer 15

A region of hills and forests west of Tidewater, has many large plantations

Question 16

What is export?

Answer 16

To sell goods abroad in other countries

Question 17

What is a charter colony?

Answer 17

A colony established by a group of settlers who had been given a formal document allowing them to settle

Question 18

What are apprentices?

Answer 18

Learning assistants to craft workers who taught them a trade

Question 19

What is the Iroquois Confederacy?

Answer 19

A powerful group of Native Americans in the eastern part of the United States made of five nations: the Mohawk, Seneca, Cayuga, Onondaga, and Oneida, based in New York

Question 20

What were the 13 Original Colonies

Answer 20

Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, South Carolina, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and Virginia

Question 21

What was the French and Indian War?

Answer 21

War when the French, British, and Indians fought in the New York, Canada, and Great Lakes regions, series of wars for world trade and control on the seas

Question 22

What was the Treaty of Paris?

Answer 22

Treaty that ended the French and Indian War, forced France to give Canada and most of its lands east of the Mississippi River to Great Britain