Ch. 4- Social Studies

A group of civilians trained to fight in emergencies is called

A militia

What plan called for one general government for all the American colonies

Albany Plan of Union

What proposal sought to unite the American colonies against the French

Albany Plan of Union

How did England view it's North American colonies

As an economic resource

In the Southern Colonies, the region of small farms was called the

Backcountry

Who exemplified the Enlightenment

Ben Franklin

The type of farming practiced in New York was

Cash crop

What British Commander was sent to conquer the French in the Ohio Valley

Edward Braddock

Labor for the Southern rice fields was provided by

Enslaved africans

True/False: Most of the German immigrants who came to America during the colonial period settled in what us now New York

False: Pennsylvania

True/False: The French and Indian War was between France and Native Americans

False: Britain

True/False: The first public education law was passed in Pennsylvania

False: Massachusetts

True/False: South Carolina and Georgia had the fastest growing economies in the colonies because of their large tobacco plantations

False: Rice

True/False: New England farms were larger than those in the Middle Colonies

False: smaller

True/False: Unmarried women in the colonies could not run businesses and own property

False: they could

The Treaty of Paris marked the end of the power in North America for

France

The Seven Years War was a war between

France and Britain

The religious revival that swept through the colonies was called the

Great Awakening

What theory holds that a nation's power depended on expanding its trade

Mercantilism

The leg of the triangular trade route in which enslaved Africans were shipped to the West Indies was known as the

Middle Passage

The hub of the shipping trade in North America was in

New England

Explain why the New Englanders started the Triangular Trade and how did it work

New England needed a way to make money that wasn't farming, so they started trading. The Triangular Trade was the most widely used route by colonial merchant ships. One leg brought sugar and molasses from the West Indies to New England. New England would make the molasses into rum, ship the rum to Africa, and trade it for slaves. On the final leg of the route, enslaved Africans were taken to the West Indies and sold to planters. This part of the Triangular Trade was called the Middle Passage. The Middle Passage was the cruelest part of the trade route

Which leader recognized that British settlers threatens the Native Americans way of life

Pontiac

The most profitable cash crop in South Carolina and Georgia was

Rice

The type of farming practiced in New England was

Subsistence

True/False: In the Southern Colonies, backcountry settlers had small farms

True

True/False: The Navigation Acts angered the colonists because they restricted trade

True

True/False: To make money from trade, England needed to export more goods than it imported

True

True/False: Use of enslaved workers increased in the colonies where hard labor was required on large farms

True

Which man changed Britain's fortune in the war with France

William Pitt