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Chapter 4 Vocabulary
Vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| bordered the Appalachian mountains and the colonies | Backcountry |
| farmers who made enough crops for themselves and occasionally enough to trade | substinence farming |
| a ship makes three stops | triangular trade |
| All shipping used English ships,tobacco and other cash crops could be sold only to England or its colonies, European imports to the colonies had to pass through English ports, officials used taxes | Navigation Acts |
| importing/ exporting things illegally | smuggling |
| crops that were harvested to sell | cash crop |
| turned wheats into flour and meal | gristmill |
| varying people regarding background | diversity |
| craftspeople | artisan |
| wagons that could travel terrains easily | Conestoga wagons |
| a crop that made a blue dye | indigo |
| discovered the value of this crop | Eliza Lucas |
| took over his father's farm, a great writer | William Byrd 2 |
| hired to direct slavery | overseers |
| slaves invited others to rebel and escape to Florida | Stono Rebellion |
| a mountain range from Alabama to Canada | Appalachian Mountains |
| waterfalls prevent boats from going upstream | fall line |
| foot of the mountains | piedmont |
| groups of people who claim an ancestor | clan |