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Chapter 4 Vocab SS

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Backcountry   Colonial region that ran along the Appalachian Mountains through the far eastern part of New England, Middle colonies, and Southern colonies.  
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Subsistence Farming   A farm that produces enough food for there family and additional trade.  
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Triangular trade   The name given to a trading route with tree stops.  
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Navigation Acts   Series of laws passed by Parliament in 1651, to ensure England made money from trade.  
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Smuggling   Importing or Exporting goods illegally.  
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Cash crop   Crop grown by a farmer to be sold for money.  
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Gristmill   A mill wich grain is grounded to make flour or meal.  
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Diversity   Variety in its people.  
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Artisan   Craftspeople  
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Conestoga Wagons   To carry their produce to town.  
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Indigo   a plant that yields a deep blue dye.  
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Eliza Lucas   A young women the introduced indigo as a successful plantation crop when she was sent to south carolina plantations when she was 17.  
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William Byrd ll   Was one of the best known of the Southern planters.  
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Overseer   Men hired by planters to watch over and direct the work of slaves.  
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Stono Rebellion   1739 uprising of slaves in South Carolina leading to the tightening of already harsh slave laws.  
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Appalachian Mountains   Stretched from eastern Canada south to Alabama.  
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Fall line   Is where waterfalls prevent large boats from moving farther upriver.  
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Piedmont   Means "foot of the mountains."  
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Clan   Are large groups of families-sometimes in the thousands-that claim a common ancestor.  
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