| A | B |
|---|
| cash crops | crops that are sold for money on the world market |
| wheat, barley, and rye | grains produced in surplus in the Middle Colonies |
| Breadbasket Colonies | Middle Colonies export so much grain that they are known as... |
| Middle Colonies produced manufactured goods such as... | clocks, watches,guns, flints,glass,stoneware,nails, and paper |
| Tenant farmers | farmers in New York who paid rent to landowners |
| log cabins | Swedish introduced this form of housing to the Middle Colonies |
| brick houses | Dutch introduced this form of housing in New York |
| backcountry | area of land along the eastern slopes of the Appalachian Mts. |
| Conestoga | covered wagons with large wheels |
| girdling | method of clearing trees |
| rifle | new weapon with greatly increased accuracy |
| Great Wagon Road | way taken by settlers into the Appalachian Mts. |
| rich and fertile | adjectives describing Middle Colony land |
