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Spanish Colonization
French Colonization
English Colonization
Definitions/Concepts
Exams
100
The man who sailed to America (which was thought to be the West Indies) with the funding of Queen Isabella of Spain
What is Brendan Chang?
100
The major industry item which the French received from Native Americans in exchange for guns and tools
What are furs?
100
The branch of Christianity which was not allowed in Mass. Bay (because it was forced upon them in England, and many did not believe in some of its teachings)
What is Catholicism?
100
Three words describing the general motives of Europeans for inhabiting the New World.
What is gold, glory, and God?
100
Who were the Northern and Southern army commanders during the battle of Gettysburg?
General George Meade and Robert E. Lee
200
Two causes to the fall of the Spanish Colonial Empire
What are: the defeat of the Spanish Armada by the British navy; lack of centralized control; exploitation colonies; and conversion efforts?
200
The territory which both the Dutch and French wanted due to a harbor it had which didn't freeze in the winter (Britain got this territory in the end)
What is New York? (or New Amsterdam)
200
The causes of the Pequot war
What are the facts that land transactions were often misunderstandings and that many Natives did not like how the Puritans treated the land?
200
The idea that there is finite wealth and that a kingdom must gain as much wealth as possible to stay powerful
What is mercantilism?
200
How did Chamberlain deal with the 120 deserters?
He gave a galvanizing speech encouraging them to join the Union in fighting, which caused 114 of the men to join. He treated them with respect and relative kindness. The 6 that didn't join were kept as "prisoners".
300
The two men who (with their conquistadors) conquered the Aztecs and Incas by using guns, germs, and steel.
Who are Hernan Cortes and Francisco Pizarro? Cortes - Aztecs Pizarro - Incas
300
The reason why British Colonies had many more people than French Colonies.
What is the fact that in the New World, France had no army, the climate was cold, and it was a hostile place to live. The British took people from their prisons and let (or made) them live in the New World.
300
The Puritan tenets (main beliefs)
What is worship of God and hard work?
300
The idea that one's race or group of similar people is superior to others
What is Ethnocentrism?
300
What dangers did the spy face?
risking getting caught and hanged by the North and having to go through part of the southern army's picket line
400
A treaty the pope made to divide up the new world between Spain and Portugal. (Portugal got much less land than Spain as the Pope was Spanish)
What is the treaty of Tordesillas?
400
The reasons why Native Americans warmed up to Jesuit missionaries
What is the idea that Jesuits weren't greedy, they had learned native culture beforehand, and they wanted to trade?
400
The type of farming temporarily used in New England in which one farmed only what he/she needed
What is Subsistence farming? Also, New England people did not want for gold in the New world
400
A system in which the expedition commander would give parcels of land and the land's inhabitants to conquistadors
What is Encomienda?
400
What shocked Chamberlain about himself (when his men found the wounded black man)
He felt racist toward black people
500
The general area where Pirates would capture Spanish Merchant ships
Where are Florida and the Bahamas?
500
Why the Dutch slowly stopped inhabiting the New World.
What is eastern colonization (being a distraction), lack of immigrants, and loss of New Amsterdam? (New York)
500
The first governing document of Plymouth Colony.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
500
One part of this trade involved the transport of weapons from Europe to Africa
What is the Triangular Trade? (Triangle Trade)
500
What do we learn about the Southern officers in the comment about the ammunition factories?
They need ammunition, and they are most likely Christian. "That night, at supper, someone remarked casually that since the army needed ammunition, wouldn't it be proper for the ammunition factories to stay open on Sunday? Most of the officers agreed that it had not yet come to that ['that' is italicized]" found on page 135, 2nd paragraph