Chapter 4 Section 4 Flashcards
What was the man economic activity for all colonies?
Plantations
What is subsistence farming?
Growing enough for your family and no one else
What is commercial agriculture?
Growing crops for money
Why did New England farmers practice subsistence farming?
The soil wasn’t very good for crops
What were the 2 main industries of the New England colonies?
Fishing and shipbuilding
What’s the triangular trade?
The trade between Africa, America, and Europe
What’s the name of the slave trade leg of the triangular trade?
The middle passage
The hub of shipping trade in America?
New York
What’s a cash crop?
A crop that’s grown for money
The 2 main cash crops in the middle colonies?
Wheat and oats
What area was known for its diverse population of Scotch-Irish and Germans?
The middle colonies
What was the main cash crop in Virginia and Maryland?
Tobacco
The main crop for South Carolina and Georgia?
Rice
What did rice and tobacco have in common?
They both needed lots of labor
What’s supply and demand?
The belief that the more of the thing available to buy, the cheaper it will get
What were the rules governing the behavior of slaves?
Slave codes
How did England view the colonies economically?
As a way to produce products
How to make money from trade?
By exporting more than you import
What was important about the navigation acts?
It ensured England made money off of the colonies
What established a limited government in the 18th century and inspired the United States constitution?
The Albany Plan of Union
What was allowed to vote in the mid 17th century in the colonies?
White adult males who own land
What was the religious revival that swept throughout the colonies?
The Great Awakening
What was the Enlightenment?
A belief that education and science would improve society
What was the name of the book that Benjamin Franklin wrote after being inspired by the enlightenment?
Poor Richards Almanac
Who was charged of accusing the governor of New York of corruption?
John Peter Zenger
The Zenger trial dealt with what liberty?
The freedom of the press
The land where the British and the French fought for because of the fur trade?
The Ohio River Valley
The most powerful group of natives in the east?
The Iroquois Confederacy
Who was sent to tell the French to leave the ORV and fired the first blow?
George Washington
What’s a militia?
A group of armed citizens who are sent to fight in emergencies
What did the Albany Plan of Union want to do?
Unite the British colonies under one legislative government
What was the name of the political cartoon that encouraged the Albany Plan of Union?
Join, or die
What was the name of the war between the French and British in Europe?
The seven years war
The name of the fort that the Cherokee burned in modern Tennessee?
Fort Loudoun
The most important victory for the British in the F&I war?
The Battle of Quebec
What did the treaty of Paris in 1763 do?
It took away almost all French colonies in North America
Who was the Ottawa chief who thought that the British were threatening their way of life?
Pontiac
What did the Proclamation of 1763 do?
It outlawed any American colonists from owning land west of the Appalachian mountains
Why were so many colonists angry at the Proclamation of 1763?
The colonists couldn’t settle the land that they specifically fought 7 years for
