Period 1 Vocabulary

Question 1

Define: Predestination

Answer 1

The theological concept that God has already chosen an individuals fate before birth or individual action

Question 2

Define: Mestizos

Answer 2

The 3rd highest rank in the Spanish’s racial hierarchy (the casta system) that belonged to the people who were of both European (Spaniard) and Indigenous ancestries

Question 3

Define: Salutary Neglect

Answer 3

The unofficial British policy where Parliamentary rules and law were loosely or not enforced on the American colonies and trade

Question 4

Define: Price Revolution

Answer 4

The high rate of inflation in Europe and the decline in the value of money

Question 5

Define: Mercantilism

Answer 5

The system in which the colony provides items (food stuff, raw materials, gold & silver, etc.) to the mother country for manufacturing all for it to be sent back to the colony as a manufactured good and at a higher cost.

Question 6

Define: Columbian Exchange

Answer 6

The “feedback loop” of trade between the Old World (Europe) and the New World (the Americas). This included the exchange of crops, animals, and diseases between the two lands.

Question 7

(Give an example)

Answer 7

Ex: A prisoner agreeing to be a servant to work for their freedom

Question 8

Define: Freeholds

Answer 8

Permanent and absolute tenure (ownership) of land/property with freedom to dispose of it at will

Question 9

According to College Board, what years constitute as Period 1?

Answer 9

1491 - 1607