Chronology and MC Quiz 1 Flashcards
What year did Harriot publish “A Briefe and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia”
1588
What year did Roanoke colony vanish mysteriously
1590
What year did Dutch settle on Manhattan island?
1611
What year was the Virginia House of Burgesses created?
1619
What year was the Massachusetts Bay Colony founded?
1630
What year was Maryland founded?
1632
What year was the First Navigation Act passed?
1651
What year was the Glorious Revolution?
1688
What year was Locke’s “Essay concerning Human Understanding” published?
1689
What year was King Philip’s War?
1675
What year were the Salem Witch Trials?
1692
What year was New Orleans founded?
1718
What year was Georgia founded?
1732
What year was the Stono Rebellion?
1739
What year was Franklin’s “Experiments and Observations on Electricity” published?
1751
What did New England sell to the West Indies and Southern Europe & Wine Islands?
Salt fish
What did New England sell to Great Britain?
livestock
How much salt fish did New England sell to west indies?
94,800
how much salt fish did New England sell to Southern Europe & Wine Islands?
57,200
How much livestock did New England sell to Great Britain?
73,400
New England Average Annual Total:
420,500
What did the Middle Colonies sell to West Indies and Southern Europe & Wine Islands?
Bread, Flour, Grain
What did Middle Colonies sell to Great Britain?
wood products
how much bread, flour, and grain, did Middle Colonies sell to west indies?
171,000
how much bread, flour, and grain did Middle Colonies sell to Southern Europe & wine islands?
177,000
how much wood products did Middle Colonies sell to Great Britain?
18,000
Middle Colonies Annual Average Total
472,900
What did the Chesapeake sell to Great Britain?
Tobacco
How much tobacco did Chesapeake sell to Great Britain?
757,000
what did Chesapeake sell to west indies and Southern Europe & wine islands
bread, flour, and grain
how much bread, flour, and grain did Chesapeake sell to West Indies?
68,800
how much bread, flour, and grain did Chesapeake sell to Southern Europe & Wine Islands?
97,500
The Chesapeake Annual Average Total
1, 017, 900
What did the Lower South sell to Great Britain?
Rice and Indigo
What did the Lower South sell so West Indies and Southern Europe & Wine Islands?
rice
how much rice did lower South sell to Great Britain?
198,600
how much rice did lower South sell to west indies?
56,000
how much rice did lower South sell to Southern Europe & wine islands?
51,000
how much indigo did lower South sell to Great Britain?
111,900
Lower South Annual Average Total
543,900
examples of mercantilism
Navigation Acts, Tariffs on Imports, Colonial Expansion
English civil war
wars were fought between Charles I and parliament
fought between 1642 and 1651
English civil war
who started mercantilism
Adam smith
in the beginning of America, slaves were transported to the …
Chesapeake bay region
European nations involved in colonizing the New World
Spain, Portugal, France, England, Netherlands, Sweden
Regions in English colonies
New England Colonies (Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, Connecticut), Middle Colonies (NY, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware), Southern Colonies (Virginia, Maryland, North and South Carolina, Georgia)
New England colonies exports
Fish, timber, shipbuilding products, fur
Middle Colonies exports
grain (esp wheat and corn), livestock, iron products
Southern Colonies exports
TOBACCO, rice, indigo, later there was also cotton
new world settlements include
Roanoke, Jamestown, Plymouth, Quebec, New Amsterdam, Santa Fe, St. Augustine, and Charles Town
which European power corresponded with roanoke
England
which European power corresponded with jamestown
England
which European power corresponded with plymouth
England
which European power corresponded with Quebec
France
which European power corresponded with New Amsterdam
The Netherlands
which European power corresponded with Santa Fe
Spain
which European power corresponded with St. Augustine
Spain
which European power corresponded with Charles Town
England