Chapter 16 Flashcards
Main rivals during era of colonization
France |
| Britain |
Stages of European contact with the rest of the world
- Discovery/ exploration
- Mercantilism
- Imperialism
- De-colonization
Mercantilism
Prosperity depends on amount if capital
Purposes of colonies and home country in Mercantilism
Trade
Peninsulares
People born in Spain ruling in the new world
Purpose of Spanish Empire
Gold and Silver bullion
Creole
Spanish colonist not born in Spain
Two area of conflict among Greta nations
Colonies, Central Europe
War of Jenkins’ Ear
Colonial conflict
Opened imperial conflict
War of Austrian Succession
1740-1748; Austria, Prussia, France, Britain
Austria keeps land
Britain is successful
Diplomatic Revilution of 1756
Britain Austria
Hanover Vs. France
Prussia Russia
Victors of the Seven Years’ War
Prussia
Stamp Act
All paper product taxed
Stamp Act Congress
“No taxation without representation”
Intolerable Acts
1774; The Coercive Acts Closed port of Boston Reorganized government of Massachusetts Troops quartered in homes Trials in England
Common Sense
1776; Thomas Paine
Advocated independence
Made for the common man