Kedge
What small vessel was capable of carrying about 130 tons of cargo and needed little water to sail,
caravel
Which device, invented by the ancient Greeks and refined by Arab navigators, uses the position of the sun
astrolabe
Who invited mapmakers, astronomers, and shipbuilders from throughout the Mediterranean world to come to Portugal to study and plan voyages of exploration
Prince Henry the Navigator
In 1493 Pope Alexander VI established a line of demarcation, which:
divided newly claimed lands between Spain and Portugal
In 1499 an Italian sailing under the Spanish flag repeated Columbus's attempt to sail west to Asia and concluded the land was a continent unknown to Europe. Who was he?
Amerigo Vespucci
Who is credited with leading the Spanish march into the Aztec Empire in 1519?
Hernán Cortés
.What was the name of the system that rewarded conquerors with the labor of particular groups of subjected people?
the encomienda system
Giovanni da Verrazano, Jacques Cartier, and Samuel de Champlain were all integral in founding:
New France
The Virginia Company introduced the system of headrights, in which a colonist:
received 50 acres for himself and 50 more acres for every person whose passage he paid
The Jamestown colonial settlement was founded in 1607 by:
the Virginia Company
Under the terms of a proprietary colony, the owner of that colony could
govern it as he wished — appoint the officials, make the laws, and grant the land
The Native American group known as the Powhatan Confederacy gave assistance to which colonial leader?
John Smith
Which of the following is NOT true of John Winthrop?
founded the religiously-tolerant town of Providence in 1636
What do we call privately owned ships licensed by the government to attack ships of other countries?
privateers
What do we call the set of ideas about the world economy and how it works that believes a country's wealth is measured by the amount of gold and silver it possesses?
mercantilism
What term is used to describe those people willing to sell their labor for a chance to acquire their own land?
indentured servants
Which is the best definition for a cash crop?
a crop grown in large quantities to be sold for a profit
Which of these involves a three-way exchange of goods?
the triangular trade
In 1660, Parliament passed a Navigation Act that required:
all colonial trade to be carried on English or colonial ships
Who was the influential Enlightenment writer that argued that all people had rights and that society can be improved?
John Locke
Montesquieu argued that to protect people's liberties, a government should:
separate its powers so that its branches check one another
The philosophy of rationalism was elevated during the era known as "The Enlightenment" and emphasized:
that human reason and logic can discover truth about nature, God, and society
Who was the person behind the experiment to inoculate colonists against smallpox?
Cotton Mather
Jonathan Edwards and George Whitefield were two:
influential preachers of the Great Awakening
What phrase is used for a set of colonial laws defining the relationship between enslaved people and free people?
slave codes