Economic Systems & Trade
This system focuses on exporting more than importing to gain wealth.
What is mercantilism?
A person of Spanish or Portuguese descent born in the Americas
What is a Creole?
Spain divided its colonies into these large administrative units.
What are viceroyalties?
The queen who was Catholic and persecuted Protestants.
Who was Queen Mary I (Bloody Mary)?
This system forced natives to work for Spanish landowners in exchange for protection.
What is the Encomienda system?
These are crops grown mainly to be sold for money or supplies.
What are cash crops?
A person of mixed European and Native American ancestry.
What is a Mestizo?
All Spanish colonies were identified as being part of this religion.
What is Catholicism?
This king ruled Spain and controlled the Netherlands.
Who was Philip II?
Natives paid this payment to Spanish rulers.
What is tribute
This term means making more money than you spend through trade
What is mercantilism
This was the name for the Protestant minority in France.
Who were the Huguenots?
The English colony was established by John Smith and Sir Thomas Dale.
What is Jamestown?
This belief states the king has total control over government and society.
What is absolutism?
About this percentage of African slaves died during the Middle Passage.
What is 15–20%?
The total control of a specific market is known as this.
What is a monopoly?
Protestants who wanted to purify the Church of England of Catholic practices.
Who were the Puritans?
The war fought between the French (with Native allies) and this rival power.
Who were the British?
The king who converted to Protestantism in order to obtain a divorce.
Who was Henry VIII?
French settlers in the far north found it easier to do this rather than colonize land.
What is trade?
The trade network connecting Africa, Europe, and the Americas.
What is the Triangular Trade (or Columbian Exchange)
The religious leader who helped pass the New Laws of 1542.
Who was Bartolomé de las Casas?
The 17 provinces are split into northern and southern regions over religion.
What were the Netherlands?
The religious group of missionaries who learned native languages but exploited labor.
Who were the Jesuits?
Explain why Native Americans fell into debt on haciendas.
They were paid low wages, forced to buy supplies from landowners, and could never repay their debt.