2.1 - 2.7

Question 1

The transfer of plants, animals, diseases and people between the Americas and Eurasia + africa.

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Columbian Exchange

Question 2

Many Europeans exchanged manufactured goods for this.

Answer 2

Fur trade

Question 3

The colony from Netherlands

Answer 3

New Amsterdam/New Netherlands

Question 4

The colony from France

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New France

Question 5

The colony from Spain

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New Spain

Question 6

one of the first joint-stock companies in the world

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Dutch East India Company

Question 7

The 3 G’s that drove imperialism.

Answer 7

Gold, God, Glory

Question 8

The economic policy that is designed to maximize the exports and minimize the imports for an economy. In other words, it seeks to maximize the accumulation of resources within the country

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Mercantilism

Question 9

The exchange of rum, slaves, and molasses between the North American colonies, Africa, and the West Indies. A small but immensely profitable subset of the Atlantic trade.

Answer 9

Triangular Trade

Question 10

Oceanic trade in African people. European traders loaded African captives at dozens of points in the African coast

Answer 10

Tranatlantic Slave Trade

Question 11

A British law that imposed a tax on molasses, sugar, and rum imported from non-British foreign colonies into the North American Colonies.

Answer 11

Molasses Act

Question 12

Series of laws passed, beginning in 1651, to regulate colonial shipping; the acts provided that only English ships would be allowed to trade in English and colonial ports and that all goods destined for the colonies would first pass through England.

Answer 12

Navigation Acts

Question 13

(1688-1763) Unofficial policy of relaxed royal control over colonial trade and only weak gov enforcement of Navigation Laws.

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Salutary Neglect

Question 14

(1676) Uprising of Virginia black country farmers and indentured servants led by Nathaniel Bacon; Initially a response to Governor William Berkeley’s refusal to protect back country settlers from Native attacks, the rebellion eventually grew into a broader conflict between impoverished settlers and the planter elite.

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Bacon’s Rebellion

Question 15

Form of labor where an individual would work under a contract without a salary to repay a loan (eg, to repay for the passage to america)

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Indentured Servitude

Question 16

A type of cash crop

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Rice

Question 17

The common form of slavery known to Americans. System allowed people - who were considered legal property - to be sold, bought and owned forever.

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Chattel Slavery

Question 18

A cash crop

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Tobacco

Question 19

The stage of the transatlantic slave trade where they had to survive the sea ships.

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Middle passage

Question 20

Central banking started in 1791

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First National Bank

Question 21

Tax imposed on certain foreign imports. Meant to help promote businesses in country.

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Tariffs

Question 22

Assume state debts, creation of a national bank, support for the new nation’s emerging industries

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Hamilton’s Financial Plan

Question 23

(1794) Uprising of whiskey distillers in the southwestern Pennsylvania in opposition to an excise tax on whiskey. In a show of strength by the new central government, Washington put down the rebellion with militia drawn from several states.

Answer 23

Whiskey Rebellion

Question 24

Series of meetings to discuss proposing amendment’s that would limit the growing power of the southern and western states.

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Hartford Convention 1814

Question 25

A term used historically in the US for public works regarding creation of transportation infrastructure.

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Internal Improvements

Question 26

Henry Clay’s 3 pronged system to promote American Industry. Advocated for strong baking system, a protective tariff, and a fe3derally funded transportation network.

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American System

Question 27

tariffs levied by an importing country to protect its domestic industry.

Answer 27

Protective Tariffs

Question 28

The Second Bank of the United States was the second federally authorized Hamiltonian national bank in the United States.

Answer 28

Second National Bank

Question 29

Explosive economic growth and new personal wealth created. The shift from traditional, moral econ to modern free-market capitalist system

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Market Revolution

Question 30

First navigable waterway connecting the atlantic ocean to the great lakes

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Erie Canal

Question 31

(1793) invention that sped up process of harvesting cotton. Made cotton cultivation more profitable, revitalized the southern economy and increased the importance of slavery in the South.

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Cotton gin

Question 32

Labor production model that was employed during the rise of the textile industry in the US (labor production system where manufacturing process done under one roof)

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Lowell System

Question 33

Used for communications

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Telegraph

Question 34

Used to move trains

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Railroads

Question 35

Machine used steam power to perform mechanical work through the agency of heat.

Answer 35

steam Engine

Question 36

Advancement that allowed farmers to cultivate crops more efficiently

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Steel plow

Question 37

Mechanized device that automated the weaving process

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power loom

Question 38

Small manufacturing operation run out of a home by single individual or a family.

Answer 38

Cottage industry

Question 39

the basic physical and organizational structures and facilities (e.g. buildings, roads, power supplies) needed for the operation of a society or enterprise.

Answer 39

Infrastructure