Question | Answer |
ran along the Appalachian Mountains through the far western part of of the other regions | Backcountry |
when farmers produced just enough food for themselves and sometimes a little extra to trade in town | Subsistence Farming |
a trading route with three stops that English settlers engaged in | Triangular Trade |
-began to pass them in 1651
-made to ensure that England made money from its colonies' trade
- all shipping had to be done in English ships or ships made in the English colonies | Navigation Acts |
-products such as tobacco, wood, and sugar could be sold only to England or its colonies
-European imports to the colonies had to pass through English ports
-English officials were to tax any colonial goods not shipped in England | Navigation Acts |
importing or exporting goods illegally | Smuggling |
crops raised to be sold for money | Cash Crop |
where millers crushed the grain between heavy stones to produce flour or meal | Gristmill |
variety in its people | Diversity |
craftspeople:
iron workers and makers of glass, furniture, and kitchenware | Artisans |
wagons that Germans built to carry their produce to town | Conestoga Wagons |
a plant that yields a deep blue dye | Indigo |
introduced indigo as a successful plantation crop after her father sent her to supervise his South Carolina plantations when she was 17 | Eliza Lucas |
was one of the best known of the southern planters
was a member in the House of Burgesses | William Byrd (the second) |
men hired by planters to watch over and direct the work of the slaves | Overseer |
in September 1739, about 20 slaves escaped and met at the Stono River with weapons
they went to plantations and killed several families...a militia surrounded them and killed many/those who were captured were executed | Stono Rebellion |
stretch from eastern Canada to Alabama | Appalachian Mountains |
where the Backcountry began
where waterfalls prevent large boats from moving farther upriver | Fall Line |
means "foot of the mountains"
the broad plateau that leads to the Blue Ridge Mountains of the Appalachian range | Piedmont |
large groups of families-sometimes in thousands- that claim a common ancestor | Clan |