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Chapter 4 Vocab IY
History
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| ran along the Appalachian Mountains through the far western part of of the other regions | Backcountry |
| when farmers produced just enough food for themselves and sometimes a little extra to trade in town | Subsistence Farming |
| a trading route with three stops that English settlers engaged in | Triangular Trade |
| -began to pass them in 1651 -made to ensure that England made money from its colonies' trade - all shipping had to be done in English ships or ships made in the English colonies | Navigation Acts |
| -products such as tobacco, wood, and sugar could be sold only to England or its colonies -European imports to the colonies had to pass through English ports -English officials were to tax any colonial goods not shipped in England | Navigation Acts |
| importing or exporting goods illegally | Smuggling |
| crops raised to be sold for money | Cash Crop |
| where millers crushed the grain between heavy stones to produce flour or meal | Gristmill |
| variety in its people | Diversity |
| craftspeople: iron workers and makers of glass, furniture, and kitchenware | Artisans |
| wagons that Germans built to carry their produce to town | Conestoga Wagons |
| a plant that yields a deep blue dye | Indigo |
| introduced indigo as a successful plantation crop after her father sent her to supervise his South Carolina plantations when she was 17 | Eliza Lucas |
| was one of the best known of the southern planters was a member in the House of Burgesses | William Byrd (the second) |
| men hired by planters to watch over and direct the work of the slaves | Overseer |
| in September 1739, about 20 slaves escaped and met at the Stono River with weapons they went to plantations and killed several families...a militia surrounded them and killed many/those who were captured were executed | Stono Rebellion |
| stretch from eastern Canada to Alabama | Appalachian Mountains |
| where the Backcountry began where waterfalls prevent large boats from moving farther upriver | Fall Line |
| means "foot of the mountains" the broad plateau that leads to the Blue Ridge Mountains of the Appalachian range | Piedmont |
| large groups of families-sometimes in thousands- that claim a common ancestor | Clan |
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