Lesson Quiz 1
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Chapter 5, Lesson Quiz 1
Lesson Quiz 1 Life in the American Colonies DIRECTIONS: Multiple Choice Indicate the answer choice that best answers the question. 1. Which of the following means “producing just enough to meet the families’ needs, with little left over to sell or exchange”? A. harvesting B. cash cropping C. subsistence farming D. tidewater farming 2. Which of the following was the worst leg of the triangular trade route? A. fishing trade B. merchant trade route C. Middle Passage D. Southern Route 3. Where were most of the large Southern plantations located? A. in the backcountry B. in the coastal areas C. in the flatlands Copyright © McGraw-Hill Education. Permission is granted to reproduce for classroom use.
D. in the Tidewater 4. What were the plantation bosses who kept the enslaved Africans working hard called? A. employers
C. slaveholders
B. overseers
D. supervisors
5. Which group controlled the economic and political life of the Southern Colonies? A. farmers
C. plantation owners
B. merchants
D. teachers
DIRECTIONS: Matching Match each item with its description. 6. an important New England industry
A. cash crops
7. rules governing enslaved people
B. backcountry
8. grain and vegetables sold for profit
C. slave codes
9. another word for cultural variety
D. shipbuilding
10. region between the Appalachian Mountains and the Tidewater
E. diversity
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Chapter 5, Lesson Quiz 1
Lesson Quiz 1 Life in the American Colonies DIRECTIONS: Multiple Choice Indicate the answer choice that best answers the question. 1. Which of the following means “producing just enough to meet the families’ needs, with little left over to sell or exchange”? A. harvesting B. cash cropping C. subsistence farming D. tidewater farming 2. Which of the following was the worst leg of the triangular trade route? A. fishing trade B. merchant trade route C. Middle Passage D. Southern Route 3. Where were most of the large Southern plantations located? A. in the backcountry B. in the coastal areas C. in the flatlands Copyright © McGraw-Hill Education. Permission is granted to reproduce for classroom use.
D. in the Tidewater 4. What were the plantation bosses who kept the enslaved Africans working hard called? A. employers
C. slaveholders
B. overseers
D. supervisors
5. Which group controlled the economic and political life of the Southern Colonies? A. farmers
C. plantation owners
B. merchants
D. teachers
DIRECTIONS: Matching Match each item with its description. 6. an important New England industry
A. cash crops
7. rules governing enslaved people
B. backcountry
8. grain and vegetables sold for profit
C. slave codes
9. another word for cultural variety
D. shipbuilding
10. region between the Appalachian Mountains and the Tidewater
E. diversity
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