Chapter 8 Outline Flashcards

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4 stages of contact

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  1. Age of Exploration
  2. Trade rivalry
  3. Government forming new empires
  4. Decolonization of people who previously lived under European colonial control
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Treaty of Utrecht

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Establish boundaries of empire

Spain controls South America except Brazil

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Bullion

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Measurement of wealth

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West Indies sold…?

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Tobacco
Cotton
Indigo
Coffee
SUGAR
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Indian trade posts AKA

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Factories

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Who led the French against the British for the Indian govt.

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Joseph Dupleix

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Who led the British against the French for the Indian govt.

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Robert Clive (victorious)

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Legal link to New World and Spain

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Castile Crown

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9
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Viceroys

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Chief executive

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Councils

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Audencias

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Local officers

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Corregidores

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Casa de Contratacion

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Regulate all trade with NW

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Cádiz

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Only port with American trade

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14
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Treaty of Utrecht and War of Spanish Succession led to?

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Hapsburg to Bourbon throne (ruling)

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Under who is the Casa de Contratacion and Council of a Indies removed?

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Charles III

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Who made intendants? What are they?

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Charles III; Royal bureaucracies

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17
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Peninsulares

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People born in Spain

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Creoles

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European descent or born in Spanish colonies

19
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Why did Portuguese enslave Africans?

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Ottoman Empire forbade exportation of white slaves from their land

20
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Official event of slavery

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1619 Dutch delivered slaves to Jamestown

21
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Center of sugar production

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Caribbean islands

22
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Triangular Trade

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Africa receives guns from Europe and gives slaves
West Indies receives slaves from Africa and gives sugar
England receives sugar from West Indies and gives guns

23
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Seasoning of new slaves

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Preparation of discipline and make sure they know they are no longer free

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Shift from religious to racial slavery

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Slave trade

25
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War of Jenkin’s ear

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British vs. Spain

Parliament prevents Spanish trade intervention with England

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War of Austrian Succession

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Fredrick II of Prussia takes Silesia

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Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle

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Prussia keeps Silesia

Spain renews British privilege: import slaves in Spanish colonies

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Convention of Westminster

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Prussia and Britain alliance (Austria’s greatest enemy)

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What led to French and Austrian alliance

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Fredrick II invades Saxony

Destroy Prussia= goal

30
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What made Prussia a strong power

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Treaty of Hubertusburg

31
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Who led Britain to victory

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William Pitt the Elder

32
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Treaty of Paris

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Pitt replaced by Earl of Bute

33
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Stamp Act

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Parliament tax on legal documents
Citizens protest
Act is repealed

34
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Boston Massacre

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British troops killed 5 people during protest

35
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Intolerable Acts

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Lord North asserts Parliament authority

36
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Who wrote Common Sense

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Thomas Paine

Expresses public opinion in favor of separation from Great Britain

37
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When did American Revolution end

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George Washington defeats Lord Cornwallis at Yorktown

38
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Commonwealthmen

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British political writers

39
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Who wrote Catos letters

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John Trenchard and Thomas Gordon

Crticized govt as corrupt

40
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Wilkes and Liberty

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Criticized Earl Bute in North Briton and got arrested

Slogan of political radicals

41
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Who organized Yorkshire Association

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Christopher Wyvil

Discuss corruption of Parliament

42
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Parliament forced Lord North to form ministry with who

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Charles James Fox