This means that farmers produced just enough food for themselves.
subsistence farming
These are crops that are mainly used to be sold for money
cash crops
This is a plant that creates blue dye
Indigo
This prevented travel by large boats to the backcountry
I can buy myself flowers
Write my name in the sand
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Talk to myself for hours
Say things you don't understand
New England mainly relied on this for food.
Fishing
This is the second largest group in the middle colonies.
Germans
This is when Southern Slaves had stolen guns and killed slave owning families
Stono Rebellion
This group of people made up a majority of the immigrants in the backcountry
Scots-Irish
'Cause I've made some real big mistakes
But you make the worst one look fine
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I should've known it was strange
You only come out at night
This is the ocean trade route from Africa to the Americas
Middle Passage
These are three resources of the Middle Colonies
Cattle, fish, furs, iron, pigs, sheep, timber, wheat
This percentage of slaves in the Americas lived in the South
85%
Horses
The way that you flip your hair gets me overwhelmed
But when you smile at the ground, it ain't hard to tell
This is the purpose of the Navigation Acts of 1651
This group believed in equality for everyone
Quakers
This percent of the South's population was African slave
40%
This is why many immigrants came to the backcountry
The land was cheap/there was a food shortage in their homeland
Ooh, let the light in
At your back door yelling 'cause I wanna come in
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Ooh, turn your light on
Look at us, you and I, back at it again
This was the main religion of New England until religious tolerance led to its decline.
Puritanism
The Dutch mainly lived in this colony. The Quakers mainly lived in this colony.(2 answers)
1. New York
2.) Pennsylvania
These colonies made up the Southern Colonies
Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia
This was the unit of value in the backcountry
Deer skins or "buck"
I got the horses in the back
Horse tack is attached
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Hat is matte black
Got the boots that's black to match