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CHAPTER 4
VOCABULARY
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| New England farmers producing just enough food to meet the needs of their families with little left over to sell or exchange | subsistence farming |
| trade between Africa, the West Indies,and New England | triangular trade |
| the practice of regulating colonial trade for the profit of the home country (England) | mercantilism |
| a variety of people found in the Middle Colonies (Germans, Dutch, Swedish, other non-English, and the English | diversity |
| crops that could be sold easily in markets in the colonies and overseas after New York and Pennsylvania farmers grew large quantities of wheat and other cash crops | cash crop |
| a region of flat, low-lying plains along the seacoast where most of the large Southern plantations were located (often located on rivers so crops could be shipped to market by boat) | Tidewater |
| a region of hills and forests west of the Tidewater that climbed up toward the Appalachian Mountains (settled in part by hardy newcomers to the colonies) | backcountry |