Chapter 4, Lesson 1&2 Vocab

In New England, long winters and thin, rocky soil made large scale farming difficult. Most farmers in New England practiced _______________________________ which meant that only produced enough food to meet the needs of their families.

• steep farming

• plantation farming

• subsistence farming

In New England and Pennsylvania, farmers grew large quantities of wheat and other ______________________, crops that could be sold easily in markets in the colonies and overseas.

• popular crops

• cash crops

• E-Z crops

• money crops

The Middle Colonies attracted Irish, German, Dutch, and Swedish settlers. They gave the Middle Colonies a cultural ____________________, or variety, not found in New England

• diversity

• ethnic groups

• mixture

The trip across the ocean was called the "Middle Passage". This name came from the fact that it was often the second, or middle, leg of the 3 part route known as the ___________________________. They called it this because the ships traveled between 3 destinations

• Diamond Trade

• Square Trade

• Triangular Trade

Many colonies had ________________, or rules governing the behavior and punishment of enslaved people.

• slave codes

• black laws

• enslaved codes

The English had a tradition of _____________________ in which people elect delegates to make laws and conduct government.

• elected government

• representative government

• house of burgesses

• selected government

Beginning in the 1600s, many European nations followed a theory known as ________________________. This was when they would build wealth and power by building its supplies of gold and silver.

• mercantilism

• import

• export

• commercialism

To sell abroad

• import

• export

• mercantilism

to bring in from foreign markets

• import

• export

• mercantilism

What was the Navigation Acts?

• laws that helped navigators travel the seas safely

• laws passed by England to control trade with the Colonies

• laws passed by the Colonies to control trade with England