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chapter 4 vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| a colonial region that ran along the appalican mountains through the for western pat of the new england,middle,and southern clonies | backcountry |
| a farm that produces enough food for the family with a small additional amount for trade | subsistance farming |
| the transatlantic system of trade in which goods, including slaves, were exchanged between Africa, England, Europe, the West Indies, and the colonies in North America | triangular trade |
| a series of laws passed by parliament beginning in 1651, to ensure that England made money from it's colony trade | Navigation Acts |
| to illegal import or export goods | smuggling |
| a crop grown by a farmer to be sold for money rather than for personal use | cash crop |
| a mill in which grain is ground to produce flour or meal | gristmill |
| a variety of people | diversity |
| a skilled worker, such as a weaver or a porter, who makes goods by hand; a craftsman | Artisans |
| a vehicle with wide wheels, a curved bed, and a canvas cover used by American pioneers traveling west | cohestoga wagons |
| a plant grown in the southern colonies that yields a deep blue dye | Indigo |
| young woman introduced Indigo as a successful plantation crop after her father sent her to supervise his S.C. plantations when she was 17 | Eliza Lucas |
| one of the best known of the southern planters | William Byrd II |
| worker hired by a planter to watch over and direct the work of slaves | overseers |
| a 1729 uprising of slaves in South Carolina, leading to the tighting of already harsh slave laws | Stono Rebellion |
| a mountain range that streches from eastern Canada south to Alabama | Appalachican Mountains |
| the point at which a water fall prevents large boats from moving farther up river | fall line |
| a broad plateau that leads to the foot of a mountain range | Piedmont |
| a large group of amilies that claim a common ancestor | clans |
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