Week 10-Studies Weekly

How did the colonists acquire American Indian land?

• they agreed to live together, they shared it, or they bought it.

• they negotiated, traded, or forcefully took the land

• they made a contract and paid rent

• they worked together as partners in trade and farming

How did proprietors get wealthy?

• They raised taxes

• They charged rent

• The king gave them a salary.

• They sold large pieces of land

What is land speculation?

• When people live on the land without persmission

• When people buy up land for the resources

• When people buy large areas of land and selling it in small lots

• When people buy up lots of small lots to make on big area

What is a tariff?

• a tax on goods coming from another country

• a tax on services in cities

• a tax on paper and tea

• a ship that carries cargo from another country

What was the voyage from Africa to the colonies in the Western Hemisphere called?

• Outward Passage

• Middle Passage

• Northwest Passage

• Inward Passage

What factors determine the price of tobacco?

• Labor, harvest, and market

• Cost of production, quality, and availability

• cost of seed, labor, or packaging that is available

• cost of shipping, labor, and how much is available

Plantation owners were always in a cycle of _______.

• wealth

• growth

• debt

• planting

Men, women, and children from Africa who were enslaved were considered ________________ by their enslavers.

• family

• workers

• property

• laborers

By the 1700s laws in Virginia began to distinguish ______________.

• women from men

• black people from white people

• wealthy men from poor men

• landowners from merchants

By the early 1700s, the colonies had established _____

____________.

• trade with China

• that no more people could come to the colonies

• that every person should be treated equally

• greater trade balance