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Chpt 3 The New World Flashcards

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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

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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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Who translated and advised Cortes to ally with conquered tribes

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Malinche

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8
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Who thought Cortes might be a god

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Moctezuma

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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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What did the Spanish do to the Aztec religion?

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Scorn it

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

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1521

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12
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Who took over Peru

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Pizarro

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13
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Who did Pizarro kill?

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Atahualpa and thousands of Inca

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14
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Who was Pizarro killed by?

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Ritual Spanish Faction

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15
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With American wealth what did Spain become?

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Europe’s Greatest Power

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16
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How many Native Americans were conquered?

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Millions

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17
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Who ruled colonies in the Spanish Empire?

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Viceroys and Audiences

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18
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Who baptized Native Americans?

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Missionaries

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19
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What system did the Conquistadors to force Native Americans to work in sugar plantations and silver mines?

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Encomienda

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20
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Who reported the horrors of the encomienda system?

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Bartholome de Las Casas

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21
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What did Native Americans become known as?

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Peons

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22
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In 1542 what law did Spain pass?

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

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23
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What did settlers in Brazil cut and export

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Brazilwood

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24
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What did Dutch, English, and French privateers attack?

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Treasure ships

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25
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Who traveled inland along the St. Lawrence River to claim present-day Canada?

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Jacque Cartier

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26
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What did Jaques Cartier name Canada?

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New France

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27
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Who established Quebec?

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Samuel de Champlain

28
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What was the first French settlement in 1608?

A

Quebec

29
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On what profitable trade did prices soar?

A

Fur

30
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The Quebec population remained what compared to the English colonies?

A

Small

31
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Who was the French king in 1608?

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King Louis XIV

32
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What are the three G’s?

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God, Gold, and Glory

33
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When was the first permanent settlement at Jamestown?

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1607

34
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What was the first English settlement in the New World?

A

Roanoke

35
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Where did pilgrims settle?

A

Plymouth, Massachusetts

36
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What compact did Pilgrims seeking religious freedom sign?

A

The Mayflower Compact

37
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What was the Mayflower Compact step toward?

A

Self-government

38
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What religion were the Pilgrims?

A

Puritans

39
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What did the British colonists not find like the Spanish?

A

Gold & Silver

40
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What people had royal governors overseeing colonial affairs but also self-governed?

A

The English Colonists

41
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In what year did the American Revolution end?

A

1776

42
Q

What did European nations fight to acquire?

A

Sugar-producing colonies in the Caribbean

43
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What war did the 1763 Treaty of Paris end?

A

The French and Indian War aka 7 Year’s War

44
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What did the Treaty of Paris give France and Britain?

A

France ceded Canada and lands east of the Mississippi River to Britain

45
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Where did the triangular trade across the Atlantic begin?

A

The Spanish Empire

46
Q

European manufactured goods went where?

A

Africa

47
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The Middle Passage took slaves to where?

A

America

48
Q

American raw material went where?

A

Europe

49
Q

Most Africans were taken from where?

A

Inland African villages

50
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What were African slaves bound with?

A

Ropes and chains

51
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Who was taken from Nigeria as a boy and transported to the Americas as a slave?

A

Olaudah Equiano

52
Q

Hundreds of slaves were packed where in chains for months?

A

Below deck of the “floating coffins”

53
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What killed half of the Africans on the middle passage?

A

Diseases

54
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What provided wealth to traders and labor to plantation owners?

A

The Atlantic Slave trade/slaves

55
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What happened to African societies?

A

They were torn apart

56
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The Global exchange of goods, ideas, plants, animals, and disease between the Old World and the New World (Named for/from Columbus)

A

Columbian Exchange

57
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What were New World exports?

A

Corn and Potatoes

58
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What were Old World exports?

A

Cattle, horses, wheat, and disease

59
Q

What happened during the Price Revolution in Europe?

A

Inflation

60
Q

What expanded trade and spurred capitalism?

A

Inflation

61
Q

Who assumed the risk of doing business?

A

Entrepreneurs

62
Q

The new business class created wealth in what?

A

Banks and Stock Companies

63
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The Cottage Industry separated what?

A

Capital and Labor

64
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What did tariffs do

A

Protected local colonial industries

65
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National Governments regulated what with their colonies?

A

Trade

66
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What was society divided into?

A

Social Classes

67
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No buying from where?

A

Other countries

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