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colonial economy
Question | Answer |
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producing just enough to meet immediate needs | subsistence farming |
a crop that can be sold easily in markets | cash crop |
variety, such as of ethnic or national groups | diversity |
trade route between three destinations, such as Britain, Africa and America | triangular trade |
rules focusing on the behavior and punishment of enslaved people | slave code |
what were important industries in New England? | Building ships, shipping, fishing, and whaling |
Southern colonists were usually __________. | farmers |
What are large farms and where are they located? | plantations; along rivers |
What did plantation owners have more of? What did they control? | money and power; the economy and politics in the Southern Colonies |
What was the main crop in Maryland and Virginia? | tobacco |
What did the Southern farmers start using because workers cost too much? | enslaved Africans |
What was the main cash crop in South Carolina and Georgia? | Rice |
What became important parts of the colonial economy? | Slavery and slave trade |
How did the Enslaved Africans get to the Americas? | They traveled by ship from Europe to West Africa and then to the Americas. then the ships returned to Europe. |
Where did most Africans work? | in the fields |