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Life in the Colonies
US History Chapter 4 Review
| Answer | Question |
|---|---|
| subsistence farming | Producing just enough to meet the families' needs, with little left over to sell or exchange? |
| Middle Passage | The most inhumane aspect of the triangular trade |
| overseers | The plantation bosses who kept the enslaved Africans working hard were called |
| plantation owners | Which group controlled the economic and political life of the Southern Colonies? |
| shipbuilding | important New England industry |
| slave codes | governed enslaved people |
| diversity | cultural variety |
| cash crops | crops that sold easily |
| mercantilism | economic theory |
| trading illegally | smuggling |
| Glorious Revolution | peaceful transfer of power in England |
| immigration | Main reason for population growth in the colonies |
| train ministers | the reason the first colleges were set up in the colonies |
| vote | One thing that no women could legally do in the colonies. |
| the Great Awakening | This was a religious revival |
| Zenger’s libel case | This case was an important step toward the idea of freedom of the press. |
| civic virtue | democratic ideas, practices, and values. |
| Fort Necessity | The small post that George Washington established in Ohio country |
| British and French | the major powers in North America by 1700 |
| raiding British settlements | Native Americans often helped the French during the war between France and Britain by doing this. |
| William Pitt | The British prime minister who drove the French out of America |
| The Treaty of Paris | This document marked the end of France as a power in North America |
| import | to bring in from foreign markets |
| epidemic | illness that affects a large number of people |
| apprentice | a person who works for another in order to learn a trade |
| militia | a military force made up of ordinary citizens |
| Navigation Acts | This act directed the flow of goods between the colonies and England |
| Ohio River Valley | Washington's first command was here |
| The Proclamation of 1763 | This called for a halt to westward expansion |
| diversity | The Middle Colonies attracted many Scotch-Irish, German, Dutch, and Swedish settlers. They gave the Middle Colonies a cultural ________________________, or variety, not found in New England. |
| Magna Carta | The protection of people's rights was a central idea in the English system of government. It first appeared in the ____________, or Great Charter, which King John signed on June 15, 1215. |
| immigration | the permanent moving of people into one country from other countries |
| The Enlightenment | This increased interest in science, promoted freedom of thought and expression, a belief in equality, and the idea of popular government. |
| Benjamin Franklin | He was a shining example of civic virtue and the Enlightenment at its best. |
| Treaty of Paris | The treaty that ended the French and Indian War in Europe. |
| home | place where most children in colonial America learned to read and write |
| Tidewater | area in which most of the large Southern plantations were located |
| back country | area near the Appalachian Mountains |
| royal colonies | These types of colonies were ruled by Great Britain |
| proprietary colonies | These types of colonies were ruled by a owner who did as they pleased |
| Iroquois Confederacy | The Mohawk, Seneca, Cayuga, Onondaga, Oneida and Tuscarora made up this powerful group. |
| Albany Plan of Union | Because of lack of colonist support this plan of unity suggested by Benjamin Franklin failed |
| raise taxes | Pitt's plan in regard of how to deal with the cost of the French and Indian War was to eventually do this to the colonists |
| Navigation Acts | Colonial merchants could not use foreign ship to export after the passage of these acts |
| manufacture goods | The colonists resisted the Navigation Acts they wanted to do this |
| Industrial economy | This was the main reason slavery wasn't well established in the North. |
| agricultural | Which term best describes the Southern economy before the Civil War? |
| French | This European colonial group treated Native Americans with more respect. |
| expel the French | Reason George Washington was sent to western Pennsylvania. |
| naval blockade | This helped the British defeat the French by cutting off supplies and reinforcements. |
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