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Chapter 4 Vocab.JH:)
Question | Answer |
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Ran along the Appalachian Mtns. through the far western part of the other regions. | Backcountry |
When farmers produced just enough food for themselves, and sometimes a little extra to trade in town. | subsistence farming |
A trading route with three stops. | Triangular trade |
In 1651, England created this to make sure that they made money from colonies' trade. Make a profit. | Navigation Acts |
Importing or exporting goods illegally. | Smuggling |
Crops that were raised to be sold for money. | cash crop |
Millers that crushed the grain between heavy stones to produce flour or meal. | gristmill |
Variety in people. | diversity |
German craftspeople, made glass, furniture, and kitchen ware. | artisan |
Germans built these to carry their produce to town. | Conestoga wagon |
A plant that yields a deep blue dye. | indigo |
The woman who introduced indigo as a sucessful plantation crop. | Eliza Lucas |
Men hired by planters to watch over and direct the work of slaves. | overseers |
In September 1739, about 20 slaves gathered at Stono River, to kill planter families, to seek freedom.Most of them died. | Stono Rebellion |
Owned a huge plantation, in House of Bergesess. | William Byrd II |
Stretched from eastern Canada south to Alabama. | Appalachian Mountains |
Where waterfalls prevented large boats from moving farther upriver. | fall line |
Means "Foot of the Mountains", broad plateau. | piedmont |
Large groups of families, that claim a ancestor. | clan |