Life in the American Colonies 4-1

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Which of the following means producing just enough to meet the family’s needs, with little left over to sell or exchange? Options: tidewater farming, cash cropping, harvesting, subsistence farming

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subsistence farming

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The plantation bosses who kept the enslaved Africans working hard were called

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overseers

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Where were most of the large Southern plantations located?

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tidewater

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Which group controlled the economic and political life of the Southern Colonies?

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plantation owners

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The most inhumane aspect of the triangular trade was the

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Middle Passage

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important New England industry

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ship building

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rules created to control enslaved people

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slave codes

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cultural variety

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diversity

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area near the Appalachian Mountains

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backcountry

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crops that sold easily

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cash crop