Ch.4 - 1 Colonial Economy Quiz

Which of the following means producing just enough to meet the family’s needs, with little left over to sell or exchange?

• Subsistence farming

• tidewater farming

• harvest farming

• plantation farming

an important New England industry was

• wheat production

• cash crops

• shipbuilding

• indigo plantations

rules created to control enslaved people

• slave codes

• plantation laws

• southern codes

• Quaker agreements

crops that sold easily

• middle passage

• subsistence farming

• staple crops

• cash crops

enslaved Africans had to endure which of the following?

• slave codes

• the Middle Passage

• fair treatment

• service contracts which granted them freedom after a few years

fishing and whaling would probably be found where

• Southern Colonies

• New England Colonies

• Middle Colonies

• East Indies

Which of the following would most likely violate a slave code?

• allowing a slave to have their own garden

• allowing a slave more time to finish their work

• teaching a slave to read and write

• giving a special pass to a slave to go into town

trade routes between the 13 colonies, Africa and England were known as

• Atlantic Trade

• square trade

• Triangular Trade

• middle passage

Which of the following would be an example of a cash crop?

• tobacco

• tomatoes

• corn

• wheat

The southern economy was based off of

• whaling and fishing

• plantations that grew cash crops which needed a large slave labor force

• lumber which required lumber mills

• large productions of wheat and barley