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Chapter 4 Vocab BM
chapter 4 vocabulary cards
Question | Answer |
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ran along the appalachian mountains through the far western part of the other regions | Backcountry |
the production of enough food for themselves and little more to trade in town | subsistence farming |
trade route with 3 stops | triangular trade |
4 major provisions designed to ensure that England made money from it's colonies' trade | Navigation acts |
importing or exporting goods illegally | smuggling |
crops raised to be sold for money | cash crops |
a place where millers crushed grain between heavy stones to produce flour or meal | gristmill |
variety | diversity |
craftspeople | artisans |
wide wheeled wagons used on dirt roads built by Germans | Conestoga wagon |
plant that yields deep blue die | indigo |
young woman who introduced indigo | Eliza Lucas |
One of the best known of the southern planters | William Byrd II |
men hired by planters to watch and direct the work of slaves | overseers |
September, 1739, about 20 slaves gathered at the Stono River and killed several planter families | Stono Rebellion |
they stretch from eastern Canada to south Alabama | Appalachian Mountains |
where waterfalls prevent large boats from moving farther up river | fall line |
"foot of the mountains" beyond the fall line. It's the broad plateau that leads to the Blue Ridge Mountains | piedmont |
large groups of families - sometimes in the thousands - that claim a common ancestor | clan |