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who was de las casas
he was a priest and viewed what they were doing to the natives was wrong and against the church
who was Columbus
he was an explorer, he found the “new world” and looked at how the natives lived.
What are Conquistadors
Explorers sent to conquer indigenous empires
What is the encomienda system
a system of forced labor in exchange for protection
What is Reconquista
a plan to acquire a trade route into Africa/Asia to defeat African Muslims
What is a caste system
a class system where there is no way to move up in class
What is enslavement
forced labor
Why did they fur trade
Because there was no good soil to farm
Why did the French have an alliances with the Natives
They didn’t need labor from natives and used them for military advances
What was the Dutch West Indes Company
A company set up in New York that had control of all trade in and out of the colony. They were a joint stock company
What is a join stock company
when finical expenses are pooled or shared throughout the company
What is a monopoly
when a company has power over one commodity or good
What is capitalism
a private property controls goods based on supply and demand
What is mercantilism
Early capitalism where the colonies existed to benefit the parent country using only exporting goods without importing anything
How to make a claim
Clearly restate the prompt
Answer the prompt with a debatable position
Use the word because
Develop a line of historical reasoning
What does HAPPY stand for
Historical context
Audience
Purpose
Point of view
whY/ significance
What tactic did the British use to maximize exports
Mercantilism
why did English settlers come to America
religious freedom, economic gain
Why did the English want to leave England
there was corruption, unemployment, and less land in England.
what are the benefits for owning land
more freedom and can vote.
how did people in the southern colonies make money
Plantations, farming.
how did people in the southern colonies class people
with a strict class system
how did people in the southern colonies treat women
they had more freedom including marriage, and power
Why did the south have more slaves
plantation economy
how did people in New England colonies get money
fishing and whaling
how did people in New England colonies live
They lived in tight nit towns
how did people in New England colonies treat women
they had less freedoms
how did people in New England colonies class people
mostly everyone was in the same class
how did people in New England colonies deal with religion
There was religious conflict
how did people in Middle colonies deal with religion
They were very tolerant
What was the diversity within the colonies
Free black slaves, people from multiple countries, idea exchanges
How was the diversity within the colonies negative
There can be conflicts between races and classes
What goods did the colonies demand form England
Books, Music, instruments etc.
What was the large British trade system called
The trans atlantic trade
What was happing in the trans atlantic trade
The Americans are sending raw materials in exchange for manufactured goods
What main idea was spread to the colonies due to the TAT
Protestantism
What is Protestantism
protests against the catholic church
What caused The first great awaking
Protestantism
What is the first great awaking
A series of Christian revivals that took place in the 1730s and 40s in Britain and its colonies
How was the great awaking successful
Open-air preaching, young persists, spreading the word
How did the Americans treat natives at first
they made alliances with them
How did the Americans treat the natives eventually
they encroached on the natives taking more and more land
How did they transfer slaves in the trans-Atlantic slave trade
The middle passage
what was the Middle Passage
the difficult journey black people went through to cross the Atlantic.
what is an indentured servant
People who sign a bond/ contract to work for someone for a specific time
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