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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| subsistence farming | growing just enought to feed one's own family |
| cash crop | farming for a profit/money. cotton, tobacco |
| middle passage | deadly crossing of the Atlantic ocean for captured slave |
| diversity | variety of peoples and cultures in America |
| Applachian Mountains | maountain range of eastern North America: |
| triangular trade | trading New England rum for slaves in Africa; then trading slaves for sugar in the West Indies |
| New England farming | small, subsistence, poor rocky soil |
| Southern colonies farming | good soil, huge plantations, more slave needed, more cash crop farming |
| Slave Onwer's | claimed that slaves were a necessary in order to keep plantation economy going |
| Slaves | were often told that it was God's will for them to be held captive and forced to work |
| Tobacco and rice | main cash crops in the South |
| Mercantilism | the economic theory that North America existed only the make England rich |
| Voting rights | only white men who owned land could vote |
| Literacy | the ability to read and write. |
| Great Awakening | religious revival of the 1740's that led to caused the creation of New churches like the Baptists and Methodists |
| Great Awakening | religious revolution where people left old, dead churches and formed new denominations |
| Jonathan Edwards | famous revival preacher of the First Great Awakening |
| slaves | most could not be taught to read or write |
| Quakers and Mennonites | often refused to own slaves |
| imports | to bring goods into a nation for sale |
| export | to sends goods to other countries to sell |
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