Chapter 4 Vocabulary

Merchant shipping routes that follow a triangle between the West Indiesk New England colonies, and West Africa.

• Triangular Trade

• cash crop

• Diversity

• subsistence farming

Cutural variety

• Triangular Trade

• cash crop

• Diversity

• subsistence farming

Farming to produce enough food to meet the needs of a family with little or none left over to sell.

• Triangular Trade

• cash crop

• Diversity

• subsistence farming

Crops that are sold for profit.

• Triangular Trade

• cash crop

• Diversity

• subsistence farming

Theory that states when a nation's trde grows, its gold resere increase, and the nation becomes more powerful

• Tidewater

• backcountry

• Overseer

• mercantilism

A region of flat low-lying plains along the seacoast.

• Tidewater

• backcountry

• Overseer

• mercantilism

Region of hills and forest west on the Tidewater

• Tidewater

• backcountry

• Overseer

• mercantilism

Boss in charge of slaves on a plantation.

• Tidewater

• backcountry

• Overseer

• mercantilism

To sell to another country

• Export

• Import

• smuggling

• charter colony

To buy from another country/foreign market

• Export

• Import

• smuggling

• charter colony