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Chapter 4 Vocab BM
chapter 4 vocabulary cards
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 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 |