Economic
2 Economic reasons Europeans colonized the "New World."
1. What was to get wealthy?
2. What was to find a new trade route to Asia? (faster and easier)
3. What was to increase trade?
4. What was for the common good. (To help everyone in the mother country.)
To convert
What is the European goal to change the belief system of the native Americans to Christianity.
3 Spanish Goals
What are,
1. God- To convert indigenous people to Christianity
2. Glory- To own most of the wealth from the new world
3. Gold- To find precious minerals and become wealthy?
Name 3 valuable minerals that colonists looked for.
What are:
1. Gold
2. Silver
3 Copper
Missionary
Who is a person that attempts to convert someone to their faith?
How long did it take after Christopher Columbus discovered the New World that Europeans began to colonize the New World?
What is 5 years?
2 Religious Reasons to Colonize the New World
What are,
1. For religious freedom- (Practice Christianity their way)
2. Convert non-believers
3. Practice their Christian Faith without fear of persecution
4. To "Purify" the Christian Faith from the King's or Catholic Church's rules
3 English Goals
What were,
1. Power and Glory- to own all of North America?
2. Mercantilism- economic policy where colonies are established by a "mother nation" to make money?
3. Opportunity- the hope to establish colonies, the hope to own land?
Name 2 cash crops.
What are:
1. Sugar
2. Tobacco
3. Cacao
4. Dyes (Red and Purple from bugs)
Sanctuary
What is a place of safety, where people can freely worship the way they want without fear or punishment?
How did poor peasants get to the New World?
What is, they signed themselves into indentured servitude?
The Protestant Reformation
What is breaking away from the Roman Catholic Church's control and Bible interpretation? It was started by Martin Luther, a theologian. He wrote a 95 page Theses on the problems of the Catholic Church.
The main argument was "Salvation" was a free gift from God. You do not have to do good works, or pay the church for it.
3 French Goals
What were,
1. Northwest Trade Route- didn't exist (passage to Asia through America)
2. Fur, Fur, and More Fur- To set up trade with the natives for animal pelts
3. Religion- to convert the indigenous people to the Christian Faith (Catholic)
What kind of pelts did the Native Americans (Iroquois and Huron) go to war over to trade with the Europeans?
What are Beaver pelts?
Communal System, or Common Stock
What is a failed political/economical system where no one owns anything and everything is shared? No one wants to work, It brings discontent, injustice, laziness and ends in starvation and death.
How was being an Indentured Servant almost like being a slave? Explain the similarities and the differences.
What is, hard labor, poor nutrition, and severe physical punishment
Indentured servants had to "serve" their masters for as long as the contract.
What is, it is not like slavery because their time serving would run out and they would be free.
How did the monarchs and church leaders keep control? Give examples
What is persecution of non-followers as treasonous, or guilty of heresy?
Examples of punishment:
Imprisonment, bankruptcy, mutilation (cropped ears, split noses), branding, tortured, murdered (drawn and quartered, burnt at the stake.)
Explain the Fall of Spain:
1. What nations were jealous, (what did they do?)
2. What did Spain create to keep control of the oceans?
3. What nation and who who was the Queen that defeated the Spanish?
1. Who were England, France, (Dutch)?
2. Spanish Armada (large naval fleet)?
3. England, Queen Elizabeth 1?
Indigenous people from the Ohio Valley fought each other for the soul right to trade goods, such as guns and steel, for beaver pelts to the Europeans. The beaver almost was hunted to extinction in the Ohio Valley.
Mother Country
What is the nation or country that started a colony for the purpose of mercantilism?
Why did peasants want to leave Europe?
What is for a better life? They could own their own land and become wealthy.
What type of Political ideology did the pilgrims try when they first landed in the new world?
1. What was the Mayflower Compact- first form of majority rule, (democracy) in the new world.
2. What was Common Stock/Communism?
The European perspective on Native Americans
What was that they thought the Native Americans were not civilized because they did not have industrialization and Christianity?
Northwest Trade Route
What is a trade route that was thought to connect North America to Asia.
It did not exist.
Mercantilism
What is an economic policy where a nation can increase its wealth by creating and trading with colonies?