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21 Cards in this Set
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What area was considered the Back country?
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The western part of the England colonies, Middle colonies,and the southern colonies. It ran along the Appalachian Mountains.
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What is substance farming?
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It is producing enough food for themselves and sometimes extra to trade in town.
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What is the importance of cash crops?
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It let people be able to sell crops and it let the middle colonies be known as the breadbasket colonies.
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What was the purpose of the Navigation Acts?
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It was to let England make money through colonists' trades
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What did it mean to have a diverse population in a colonial region?
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It means to have different kinds of people live in a certain area
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What was true about Conestoga Wagons?
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They were made by Germans, they had curved beds so the items wouldn't fall out, it had wide wheels for the dirt for stability, and it had a canvas cover so the wagon wouldn't get wet.
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Most people in New England earned their living through...
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Trade
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Germans and Dutch immigrants came to the English colonies and settled mainly in the...
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Middle colonies
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The... required that all trade with the colonies had to be trandported on English ships.
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Navigation Acts
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Because of their wealth, the south's... gained political control over the colonies.
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Upper class or elite planter class
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... were the first Wuropeans to come into contact with the Native Americans in the backcointry.
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Traders
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Two important cash crops in the ... were rice and tobacco.
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Middle colonies
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In the middle passage of the triangular trade, enslaved Africans were transported to the West Indies where they were exchanged for...
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iron and rum
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The growth of trade made ... the fastest growing city in all the colonies
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Philadelphia
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The largest number of free blacks lived in the...
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New England
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Farming was more difficult in the... than it was in the other colonies.
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New England
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What was distinctive about th New England Colonies?
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New England had long winters and rocky soil and English settlers made up the largest group in the population.
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What were the major industries that made the New England Colonies prosper?
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shipbuilding, fishing, and trade
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For the few enslaved Africans who could buy their freedom, what type of future awaited them?
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They could be a merchant, sailor, printer, carpenter, or landowner.
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In what ways was plantation life similar to Back country life?
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They both had to raise their own food. There weren't large factories and they were both self-sufficient.
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What were key factors in the decline of the Puritan religion?
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The drive for economical success competed with Puritan ideas, increasing competition from other religious groups, political changes that guaranteed religious freedom for all Protestants, not just Puritans.
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