Mercantilism, etc.
Mercantilism and Capitalism are both systems of what?
Economics
Capitalism and Mercantilism are both systems of what?
Economics
Both of these countries followed the policies of what economic system?
Mercantilism
The Columbian Exchange started in what year?
1492
The French and Indian War started in what year?
1754
Nations following Mercantilism wanted to have more ___________________ than imports.
Exports
Capitalism is an economic system where businesses are intent on making what?
Money
In the colonies, production was strictly managed by Portugal, Spain or both?
Both
Horses were largely beneficial to the New World. What was the biggest benefit?
Transportation
This war was mainly fought over land in the area known as what?
The Ohio River Valley
The economic system of Mercantilism is based on less government control or more?
More
Capitalism is built on businesses competing in the ________________________________?
Marketplace
Christopher Columbus was sponsored by this powerful nation in his 1492 voyage across the Atlantic: ____________________?
Spain
Disease was very negative to the New World. Name 2 diseases that came from the Old World to the New?
Measles, smallpox, influenza, typhus, malaria, diphtheria, whooping cough and yellow fever
The French and Indian War ended in what year?
1763
Gold is essential in Mercantilism because it represents wealth. What other precious metal represents wealth in this same way?
Silver
Goods taken out of a colony or country are?
Exports
Define Creoles?
People of pure Spanish or Portuguese descent born in the Americas
Pigs had at least one negative trait as they came to the New World. What was this negative trait?
They were destructive
In this war, the French fought against what other power?
The British
Goods brought into a country or colony.
What is a tariff?
A tax
The Spanish and Portuguese empires had this general behavior towards Creoles?
They ignored them to some degree
Other than horses and pigs. What 2 other animals had a positive effect from the Old World?
Cattle, goats, sheep and chickens
On what side did George Washington fight during the French and Indian conflict?
The British