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Ch. 4 Social Studies
Vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| trade route that exchanged goods between the West Indies, the American colonies, and West Africa | Triangular Trade |
| farm crop raised to be sold for money | Cash Crop |
| region of flat, low-lying plains along the seacoast | Tidewater |
| region of hills and forests west of the Tidewater | Backcountry |
| person who supervises a large operation or its workers | Overseer |
| the theory that a state's or nation's power depended on its wealth | Merchantilism |
| trading illegally with other nations | Smuggling |
| colony established by a group of settlers who had been given a formal document allowing them to settle (piece of paper colony) | Charter Colony |
| colony run by individuals or groups to whom land was granted (run like a business) | Proprietary Colony |
| colony in which the king appoints a governor and the governor appoints people to the upper house and elections are held for the lower house | Royal Colony |
| assistant who assigned to learn the trade of a skilled craftsman | Apprentice |
| powerful group of Native Americans in the eastern part of the United States, made up of 5 nations: Mohawk, Seneca, Cayuga, Onondaga,and Oneida | Iroquois Confederacy |
| laws that directed the flow of goods between England and the colonies, can't use foreign ships and prohibits the colonists from sending certain products outside the English empire | Navigation Acts |
| religious revival of the 1730's and 1740's | The Great Awakening |
| movement that spread the idea that knowledge, reason, and science could improve society | The Enlightenment |
| document that ended the French and Indian War to an end | Treaty of Paris |
| King George III declared the Appalachian Mountains the temporary boundary for all the colonies | Proclamation of 1763 |