history test 1

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