Chapter 3: The New World Flashcards

1
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What group of people did Columbus’s men seize?

A

The Taino People

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2
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What did the Taino people pay to Columbus’s men

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A tribute of gold

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3
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What did the Conquistadors bring to the Americas?

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Superior weapons and horses (idk why it doesn’t say disease, but I assume so)

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4
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What diseases did Native Americans have no immunity to?

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Smallpox, measles, and influenza

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5
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How much did the Native American population decline from disease?

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90%

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6
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Where did Herman Cortes march to?

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Tenochtitlan

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7
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Who translated and advised Cortes to ally with conquered tribes

A

Malinche

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8
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Who thought Cortes might be a god

A

Moctezumal

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9
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Why did the Spanish imprison Moctezuma?

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To gain control of the Aztec people and riches

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10
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In what year did the Spanish attack Moctezuma/ the Aztecs again?

A

1521

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11
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Who took over Peru

A

Pizarro

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12
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Who/whos? did Pizarro kill?

A

Atahualpa and thousands of Inca

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13
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Who was Pizarro killed by?

A

Ritual Spanish Faction

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14
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With American wealth what did Spain become?

A

Europe’s Greatest Power

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15
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Who ruled colonies in the Spanish Empire?

A

Viceroys and Audiences

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16
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Who baptized Native Americans

A

Missionaries

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17
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What system did the Conquistadors to force Native Americans to work in sugar plantations and silver mines?

A

Encomienda

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18
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Who reported the horrors of the encomienda system?

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Bartholome de Las Casas

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19
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What did Native Americans become known as?

A

Peons

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20
Q

In 1542 what law did Spain pass?

A

The New Laws of the Indies (“Banned Slaves”)

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21
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Peninsulares

A

Born in Spain

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22
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Creoles

A

American-born descendants of peninsulares

23
Q

Mestizos

A

Native Americans / European descent

24
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Mulattoes

A

African and European descent

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What did settlers in Brazil cut and export
Brazilwood
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What did Dutch, English, and French privateers attack
Treasure ships
27
Who traveled inland along the St. Lawrence River to claim present-day Canada?
Jacque Cartier
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Who established Quebec?
Samuel de Champlain
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What was the first French settlement in 1608?
Quebec
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What are the three G's
God, Gold, and Glory
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When was the first permanent settlement at Jamestown?
1607
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What compact did Pilgrims seeking religious freedom sign?
The Mayflower Compact
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What people had royal governors overseeing colonial affairs but also self-governed
The English
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What did European nations fight to acquire?
Sugar-producing colonies in the Caribbean
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What war did the 1763 Treaty of Paris end?
The French and Indian War ( 7 years war)
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Where did the triangular trade across the Atlantic begin
The Spanish Empire
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European goods to where?
Africa
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(The Middle Passage) Slaves to where?
America
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American goods to where?
Europe
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Most Africans were taken from where?
Inland African villages
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Who was taken from Nigeria as a boy and transported to the Americas as a slave?
Olaudah Equiano
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What killed half of the Africans on the middle passage?
Diseases
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What provided wealth to traders, and labor to plantation owners
The Atlantic Slave trade/ slaves
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What was the Columbian Exchange
The Global exchange of goods, ideas, plants, animals, and disease between the Old World and the New World (Named for/from Columbus)
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What were New World exports?
Corn and Potatoes
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What were Old World exports?
Cattle, horses, wheat, and disease
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What expanded trade and spurred capitalism?
Inflation
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The new business class created wealth in what?
Banks and Stock Companies
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The Cottage Industry separated what?
Capital and Labor
50
What is Capital
Money that is used to invest
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What did tariffs do
protected local colonial industries
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National Governments regulated what with their colonies?
Trade
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What was society divided into?
Social Classes
54
No buying from where
Other countries