Mercantilism
Mercantilism proposed the balance of
What is exports over imports?
The Columbian Exchange refers to the transfer of these 3 things between the old and New Worlds.
What are plants, animals, and diseases?
This leg of the triangular trade transported enslaved Africans to the Americas
What is the Middle Passage?
These are people who worked against their will and contributed to the growth of plantations.
What are slaves?
Who is Hernan Cortes?
What was the purpose of the colonies?
What is to benefit the Mother country?
This animal revolutionized transportation and hunting for Native Americans.
The Triangular Trade connected these 3 places.
What are the Americas, Europe, and Africa?
These colonies heavily depended on slave labor.
What is the southern & chesapeake colonies?
Francisco Pizarro is known for conquering this South American empire
What is the Inca Empire?
What is gold (or silver?)
What is smallpox?
Slaves were traded for this product.
What is sugar (rum or molasses)?
These workers worked for a certain number of years (usually 7) in exchange for passage to the New World.
What are indentured servants?
Conquistadors were motivated by these three goals
What are God Gold and Glory (3G's)?
This English act aimed to tighten control over colonial trade to enforce the mercantilist policy
What is the Navigation Acts?
These 2 crops increased European and African populations due to how many calories there were in them.
What are potatoes and maize (corn)?
This was brought from the Caribbean islands to Europe.
What is raw materials?
The plantation system was used to grow these types of cash crops.
What are sugar, cotton, and tobacco?
This term refers to the legal grants given to Spanish conquerors allowing them to extract labor and tribute from indigenous people.
What is the encomienda system?
What is the core economy that is associated with mercantilism, emphasizing the importance of accumulating precious metals
What is bullionism?
This disease from the New World was brought to the Old World.
What is syphilis?
This port city in England became a hub of the Triangular Trade, gaining massive wealth through slave trading.
This 1676 rebellion revealed tensions between poor former indentured servants and the elite, accelerating the shift to slavery
What is Bacon's Rebellion?
This is the person who opposed the brutal treatment of Natives
Who is Bartolome de las Casas?