US History U1 P2

Mercenary motivated by

Renaissance spirit (ambition to create)

Commerce

commodities exchanged with foreign countries

Sir Walter Raleigh

Established first english settlement in america

why did Walter Raleigh have sir in his name

he was knighted

Magistrate

one who has authority to rile over foreign land

encomienda

gives authority to magistrate to heavily tax and enslave indigenous people (was a land grant)

Peons

People enslaved by encomiendas

Due to forced immigration

decline of power economically, politically, militarilly

male slave known as

buck

female slave known as

wench

What was the route to the ship

kingdom to cell to door to no return to ship

cells

were made by slaves and they stayed there until sent to ship

Columbian Exchange

transfer of people plants animals ideas and diseases

triangular trade

trade of commodities

Dehumanization of Africans

considered cargo, a commodity, started with the hunt (considered hunting when capturing africans), and they were caged and chained.

Middle passage was which leg of triangular trade

2nd

what occured on the ship

Suicide, rrape, disease, mutinies and revolts

were revolts sucessful

No they were not because africans were strategically placed on the ship so they could not communicate, and africans didn’t know how to control a ship

why did disease spread

They were chained and confined in small space with no bathroom breaks

When people died what happened

They laid in their own waste in a small area

what did slaves try to do

jump overboard when they had the chance to get to upperdeck

what did slaves do on upperdeck

they were cleaned with salt water and forced to dance so they were healthy (more profit)

Why did they clean them

to try to stop disease

Loose Pack

Had more space so less disease so less deaths but had less slaves; loose pack had slaves and cargo

Tight pack

Had no cargo only slaves; many slaved died but there were still MANY slaves

Which one was more profitable, loose or tight

both equally had pros and cons

Which slaves were always shackled

Male slaves; women and children had some freedom

Why did sharks follow slave ships

They threw away people who looked like they were gunna die and dead people so it was food for sharkc

Great migration of Europeans

Mass emigration of puritans and other Europeans to the new world

Why did large number come to New World

to escape persecution (punished for beliefs, usually religion)

what was the government body in england

Church of England

Purtitans

Wanted to be cleansed of rights and rituals of church

Seperatists

wanted to seperate from church because of rights and rituals

Portestants

Protested against church

Others

due to joint stock companies

Joint stock companies

pull money to invest in an enterprise; they7 sent people to set up shop and send money to parent company

Major join stock companies

Massachusetts Bay company, Virginia Company, Plymouth Company