chapter 17

Question 1

Atlantic system became a web of trade routes that bound together __________________________________ and became the hub of European expansion throughout the world.

Answer 1

Western Europe, Africa and the America’s

Question 2

Plantations

Answer 2

Large tracts of land owned by colonial settlers, farmed by slave labor and produced staple crops

Question 3

Europeans imported ____(1)____ central and South America. West Indies they imported ___(2)___ colonies in North America ___(3)___.

Answer 3

1) Precious Metals
2) Sugar
3) Timber, FIsh, Tobacco, and Furs

Question 4

Mestido

Answer 4

a person born to a Spanish father and a native mother

Question 5

Peninsular

Answer 5

those born in Spain

Question 6

Creoles

Answer 6

born in America of Spanish parents

Question 7

, To expand its trade in the rest of the world, Europeans

Answer 7

seized territories and tried to establish permanent settlements

Question 8

COnsumer society coffeehouses

Answer 8

where people could meet socially and discuss business and politics

Question 9

3 main reasons for the population explosion

Answer 9

• better weather produced bountiful harvests
• improved agricultural techniques
• the disappearance of the Plague after 1720

Question 10

By 1750_____ is Europe’s largest city

Answer 10

London

Question 11

Conspicuous consumption

Answer 11

the consumption of luxuries on a lavish scale in an attempt to enhance one’s prestige

Question 12

50 years of warfare 1700-1750 saw 3 important developments

Answer 12

• A new power lignment arose
• A coalition of powers held France in check on the continent
• The British RIse and the Dutch Decline

Question 13

Russia had defeated Sweden considered to be one of the world’s best militaries, and the victory overturned the view that Russia was militarily incompetent

Answer 13

Russia’s Emergence as a European power, Battle of Poltava

Question 14

Peter the great

Answer 14

expanded the Russian state into a much larger empire. Led a cultural revolution in Russia to modernize them along Western Standards

Question 15

Peter introduced numerous reforms

Answer 15

-founded the Russian Academy of Science
-replaced the Russian calendar with the Julian Calendar
- Adopted European fashions and banned beards for men and veils for women
- Modernized the army and built a navy

Question 16

Symbolized Russia’s “opening to the west”

Answer 16

St. Petersburg

Question 17

The Table of Ranks

Answer 17

a formal list of positions and ranks in the military, government, and court of imperial Russia. All social and material advantages now depended on serving the crown

Question 18

What was the enlightenment

Answer 18

it was a cultural movement of intellectuals in the 18th century Europe and the American colonies

Question 19

What was the purpose of the Enlightenment?

Answer 19

-To reform society using REASON!!
-To advance knowledge through science

Question 20

What did the Enlightenment oppose

Answer 20

Superstition, intolerance, and some abuses by church and state

Question 21

The central doctrines of the Enlightenment philosophers were

Answer 21

individual liberty and religious tolerance

Question 22

A significant criticism of the Enlightenment was that its followers

Answer 22

subjected everything to criticism and challenged both political and religious authority

Question 23

The 3 main reasons for immigration to the “New World”

Answer 23

economic, political, and religious freedom

Question 24

By 1776, there were 3 types of colonies

Answer 24

proprietary, charter and royal

Question 25

Were the executive authority in the colonies, carrying out the Kings instructions

Answer 25

Royal governors

Question 26

Navigation act of 1651, 1660, 1663

Answer 26

Regulate and control colonial trade

Question 27

The French and Indians war in America

Answer 27

For control over the lucrative fur trade

Question 28

The stamp Act of 1765

Answer 28

The proclamation of 1763

Question 29

Colonial Response

Answer 29

• Virginia assembly passed the Virginia resolves only the Virginia assembly had right to tax Virginians
• New England Colonies mobilizes a group of protestors THE SONS OF LIBERTY
• they use violence and intimidation to avoid the taxes
• New York
• The Stamp act congress
• peaceably petitions parliament for a redress

Question 30

Coercive acts

Answer 30

• Boston Port Act
• Massachusetts Government Act
• Impartial Administration of Justice Act
  -Quartering Act

Question 31

The second continental congress issues a declaration of independence

Answer 31

July 4, 1776

Question 32

Ideals of the Enlightenment put in writing and mandates that the government must abide by them

Answer 32

The Constitution of the United States of America