Quiz Flashcards
What is a constitution?
A plan of government for a colony that is written.
What is indigo?
A blue dye.
What is a debtor? Pronounced detor.
A person who went to prison for owning money.
What is a planter?
A farmer that owns space to plant crops. Normally this was a rich person.
What is tidewater?
Low-lying land along the coast.
What is a broker?
A person that is paid to buy/sell goods for others.
What is an auction?
Public sale.
What is an overseer?
They watched the field slaves, and were punished if they didn’t work hard enough.
What is a spiritual?
A song sung by slaves to help them through hardships and express their religious beliefs.
What is a public service?
Someone that does a job to help your community or society as a whole.
What is an apprentice?
A person that lives with another family to learn a skill.
What is a county seat?
The main seat of a county.
What is a county?
A large part of the colony.
What is an indentured servant?
A person that agrees to do work for someone else for a certain amount of time for a passage to North America.
Why was selling crops for profit important to the success of the southern colonies?
Cash crops provided the southern colonies with the money needed to survive and prosper.
Use planter and tidewater in a sentence.
Planters built plantations on the tidewater because of the rich soil and waterways that were good for transportation.
Why were spirituals important to enslaved people?
Spirituals helped enslaved people to get through hardships and express their religion beliefs.
What were the consequences of planting tobacco?
Planters have to keep cleaning more and more land because crops such as tobacco ruined the soil in only a few years.
What helped Wilmington grow and prosper?
Immigrants helped Wilmington grow and prosper. Another thing that help it grow, coastal towns, and, the location on Cape fear River helped it grow and prosper.
What happened in 1670?
In 1670 Charles town became the center of life in South Carolina.
What are economic reasons that made colonists live in Wilmington?
Economic reasons that made colonists settle in Wilmington North Carolina was because there was fertile soil and a lot of trees.
What advantages and disadvantage of building towns in North Carolina and South Carolina?
The advantages were: there were lots of dances, concerts, and music. The disadvantages: there was an insect infestation.
