AP US Easy Test 1

Mercantilism

The new European economic policy technique for colonial empires that operated on the policy that the world is a fixed wealth system

Portugal and Spain

Two European states that began exploring in sixteenth and seventeenth centuries

Tariffs

Part of mercantilism, policy of taxing imports to keep fixed wealth in mother country

Sabotage

Part of mercantilism, policy of stealing goods or colonies of competing states

Chartered Companies

Type of companies allowed to settle colonies for their mother country

Colombian Exchange

Exchange of goods between old world and new world

Exports

Term used to describe goods sold to another country

British East India Company

Example of a charter company

tobacco, cacao, corn, potatoes, tomatoes, pumpkin

Food from New World to Old World

rice, coffee, wheat, okra, and livestock

Food from Old World to New World

Netherlands, France, England

Three European states that began exploring after Spain and Portugal (Later in the 17th century)

Imports

Term used to describe goods being purchased from another country

India, China, Persia

Three regions or states that were the primary trading targets of Europeans.

Mohawk

This tribe was the dominant tribe in the Iroquois confederacy

Matriarchal

Type of society under the Iroquois, with females at the top

King Phillips War

Conflict fought 1675-1678 as colonists and native Americans disputed ownership of land

Treaty of Casco Bay

Treaty that ended King Phillip’s war

Peninsulares, Criollos, Mestizos, Mulattoes, Zambos

In order from most to least esteemed Spanish racial caste system.

Encomiendas

Name for land tile(?) grants given to conquistadors during the modern era

Privately

How European settlers believed property should be held.

Common land (public)

How American Indians believed property should be held.

The Great Lakes Region

*The* region the French primarily settle in North America

Encomienderas

Name of feudal rulers of the land grants (encomienda land grants)

Beaver Wars

Series of conflicts between the native Americans of the northeast in the 17th century over the fur trade.

Algonquin and Huron

Side aided by French during Beaver Wars

Iroquois

Side victorious during the Beaver Wars

Haciendas

Individual ranches, mines, and plantations on the Encomienda land grants

Colonialism

Practice of establishing overseas colonies to provide wealth and resources for the mother countries.

England, Netherlands, Sweden

Three European states with colonies on the East coast