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Chapter 4 Vocab KL
Question | Answer |
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The area of land behind the 13 original colonies that ran along the Appalachian Mountains and the rest of the west. | Backcountry |
The practice of farming enough food for you and your family and maybe some to trad in town. | subsistence farming |
The name of a trade route that stopped at three stops. | Triangular trade |
The Acts passed by England so they would get a profit from the enormous trade in New England. | Navigation Acts |
The importing or exporting goods illegally. | Smuggling |
Crops raised to be sold for money. | cash crops |
A place were farmers take their crops to be ground down into flour or meal. | gristmill |
Having variety in its people. | diversity |
People who craft things. | artisans |
Wagons with wide wheels that are suitable for dirt roads and settlers often used them to carry their belongings on trips. | Conestoga wagons |
A popularly grown plant that yields a deep blue dye. | indigo |
A woman who made indigo a successful plantation crop. | Eliza Lucas |
A successful plantation owner that wrote popular stories. | William Byrd II |
Men hired by planters to watch over and direct the work of slaves. | overseers |
A rebellion of 20 slaves that marched and killed many planters, but were stopped by a white militia. | Stono Rebellion |
A mountain range that stretches from Alabama to Canada. | Appalachian Mountains |
A place where large waterfalls stop big boats going further upstream. | fall line |
A place behind the fall line that means the foot of the woods. | piedmont |
Large groups of families. | clan |