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Chapter 4
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| apprentice | a person who learns a craft or trade by working with a skilled member of that craft or trade |
| common school | a colonial elementary school |
| artisan | a person skilled at making things by hand |
| backcountry | the western part of the Southern Colonies just east of the Appalachian Mountains |
| cash crop | a crop grown for sale rather than for use by farmers |
| indigo | a plant that produces a blue dye for cloth |
| overseer | a supervisor |
| Piedmont | a relatively flat area between the Appalachian Mountains and the coastal plain |
| Stono Rebellion | a 1739 revolt by enslaved Africans against their owners |
| arable | able to grow crops; fertile |
| commodity | a trade good |
| Conestoga wagon | a kind of wagon made by German settlers in North America that could carry heavy loads |
| burgeon | to grow quickly |
| Enlightenment | an intellectual movement that emphasized the use of reason to examine previously accepted beliefs |
| Great Awakening | a series of Protestant religious revivals that swept across the American colonies |
| libel | the publishing of lies |
| midwife | a person who is trained to help deliver babies |
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