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important New England industry

• ship building

• cotton

• tobacco

• gold mining

Rules governing the behavior and punishment of enslaved people

• diversity

• slave codes

• indentured servant

• landowner

Crops that could be sold easily in markets in the colonies and overseas

• Wheat crops

• oranges

• cash crops

• none of the above

cultural variety

• backcountry

• diversity

• slave codes

• colonists

How did most settlers in the Southern Colonies make their living?

• Working in factories

• Farming

• Carpentry

• mines

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

• harvesting

• cash cropping

• subsistence farming

• tidewater farming

The most inhumane aspect of the triangular trade was the ___.

• fishing trade

• merchant trade route

• Middle Passage

• Southern Route

Where were most of the large Southern plantations located?

• backcountry

• coastal areas

• flatlands

• Tidewater

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

• employers

• overseers

• Governors

• supervisors

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

• farmers

• merchants

• plantation owners

• teachers