SS: WK 10 Colonial Life Quiz

The Navigation Acts created a favorable trade balance for

• Africa
• Africa and Europe
• American Colonies
• Europe

A system of trade where a country wants to increase exports (items sold to other countries) and decrease imports (items bought from other countries) → gives the country a favorable trade balance and more money stays in their country.

How did the colonists acquire American Indian land?

• Colonists agreed to live together, they shared it, or they bought it.
• Colonists negotiated, traded, or forcefully took the land.
• Colonists made a contract and paid rent.
• Colonists worked together as partners in trade and farming.

The voyage bringing African slaves from Africa to the the West Indies and the American colonies was called the __________.

• Outward Passage
• Middle Passage
• Northwest Passage
• Inward Passage

A tax on goods coming from another country.  Tariffs are added to the cost of the goods. → makes the goods more expensive.

What factors determined the price of tobacco?

• labor, harvest, and market
• cost of production, the quality, and how much was available
• cost of seed, labor, or packaging that was available
• cost of shipping, labor, and how much was available

The men, women, and children from Africa who were enslaved were considered __________ by their enslavers.

• family
• workers
• laborers
• property

By the 1700s, the laws in Virginia began to distinguish __________.

• women from men
• Black people from white people
• wealthy men from poor men
• landowners from merchants

A process where the plantation owners sold products (tobacco) to a middleman in England.  The middleman (broker) then purchased goods for the plantation owner.  The goods often cost more than the sale of the original product. As a result, the plantation owners were in debt → had no profits and owed money to the middlemen. This would repeat the next year.  It was very difficult for a plantation owner to get out of debt.

By the early 1700s the colonial economies had:

• social networks
• a greater trade balance with England
• treaties with the American Indians
• many churches