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Economic History Review: Colonial America Settlement and Development

Explore the economic foundations of the American colonies, from cash crops to industrial growth, covering key events and economic theories shaping the nation.

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Economic History Review: Colonial America Settlement and Development

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  1. SOL REVIEW Economic History

  2. What was the major reason for the settlement of Virginia and the other Southern colonies? • Economic Opportunity

  3. What became the cash crop of the Virginia colony? • Tobacco

  4. Name four characteristics of the economy of the New England colonies? • Shipbuilding • Fishing • Lumbering • Subsistence Farming

  5. Name three characteristics of the economy of the Middle Colonies? • Shipbuilding • Small farms • Trading

  6. What was the economic basis of the Southern colonies? • Cash crops raised on large Plantations

  7. What were the three cash crops of the Southern colonies? • Tobacco • Rice • Indigo

  8. What were the two cash crops in South Carolina? • Rice • Indigo

  9. Which English colonies believed in private property and free enterprise (profit)? • ALL

  10. What is a tariff? • A tax on imports

  11. What is another name for a tariff? • Customs Duty

  12. What is revenue? • Tax Money

  13. What is a monopoly? • Complete Control • Absence of Competition • No Competition

  14. What does interstate commercemean? • Trade between states

  15. What were two trends in American life during the first half of the 19th century? • Westward Movement • Economic Development

  16. What two transportation improvements encourage westward movement and economic development? • Canals • Railroads

  17. Who invented the cotton gin? • Eli Whitney

  18. What did the cotton gin cause to spread throughout the Deep South? • The “Cotton Kingdom” based on African-American slavery

  19. Did the cotton gin increase or decrease the demand for slaves? • Increased

  20. Between 1800 and 1850, what region developed an industrial economy based on manufacturing? • The North

  21. Between 1800 and 1850, what region developed an industrial economy based on manufacturing? • The North

  22. Which region favored high protective tariffs? • The North

  23. Define protective tariffs. • Taxes on imports which are so high that Americans cannot afford to buy foreign goods

  24. What was the basis of the South’s economy? • Agriculture (Farming) • Plantations that used slave labor

  25. Did the South support or oppose high tariffs? • Opposed

  26. Why did the South oppose high tariffs? • Made manufactured goods more expensive

  27. What were economic and social results of Reconstruction? • South was devastated and bitter. • North and Midwest had strong industrial economies.

  28. What transportation improvement was completed in 1869? • 1st Transcontinental Railroad

  29. What did the transcontinental railroad do? • Linked the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans by Rail

  30. What was the 1862 Homestead Act? • Law that gave freepublicland to settlers in the western territories • Settlers promised to live on and farm this land for five years

  31. What 2 new technologies in the late 19th century opened new Western lands? • Railroads • Mechanical Reaper: harvested wheat

  32. What did Chinese immigrants help build? • Transcontinental railroad

  33. What are two advantages of a corporation? • 1) Raise capital; 2) Limited Liability

  34. What 18th century Scottish philosopher developed the laissez faire economic theory? • Adam Smith

  35. Who wrote Wealth of Nations? • Adam Smith

  36. What does laissez faire mean? • An economic philosophy that says government should leave business alone; let business do what it wants. Government should neither help nor hinder business.

  37. What does anti-trust mean? • Anti-monopoly

  38. What was the major weakness in the Sherman Anti-Trust Act? • The wording was toovague.

  39. What is a labor union? • An organization of workers

  40. In what major strike in the 1890s was the American Railway Union involved? • The Pullman Strike

  41. Who won the Pullman Strike? The Pullman Company or the American Railway Union • the Pullman Company

  42. What labor union was involved in the 1892 Homestead Steel Strike? • The AF of L (American Federation of Labor)

  43. What union was blamed for the 1886 Haymarket Riot in Chicago? • The Knights of Labor

  44. What did the term “trust” mean during the late 19th and early 20th centuries? • A business monopoly

  45. What does the term monopoly mean? • Absence of Competition

  46. What industry was made more efficient by the development of the Bessemer process? • Steel

  47. Which side did government take in both the Haymarket Riot and the Pullman Strike? Big Business or Labor? • Big Business

  48. Define imperialism. • One country gaining political or economic control over another country

  49. What was the Open Door Policy? • All nations would have equal trading rights in China

  50. What president was known for Dollar Diplomacy? • William Howard Taft

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