Quiz 1 Flashcards
This group of people cut the trade route, which lead to the Europeans not being happy and searching for an all water route to India and China (the Orient)
Turks
Which European Country was the first one to search for an all water route to the Orient?
Portugal
This war was between France and England, France ends up winning and England has a Civil War right afterwords
100 years war
The Europeans didn’t like this group because they were Muslims, which led to several crusades
Turks
This was when the Europeans were trying to conquer Spain from the Mooers (Muslims). The Christians wanted to push the Mooers back into Africa.
Reconquista
Who proposed their plan to find an all water route to the Orient in 1492 after the Reconquista ended?
Colombus
This was the first person to find an all-water route to the orient, but no one seemed to are because they thought that Colombus had already found it
Vasco de Gama
Colombus tried to claim that he found an all water route to the orient which lead to what?
The Portuguese and the Spanish argue about what Colombus found and want to go to war
Who doesn’t want the Portuguese and Spanish to go to war because war costs more money?
The Pope
This treaty was created when the Pope drew an imaginary line for Spanish and Portuguese territory. West of the line is Spanish territory, and east of the line was Portuguese territory. Spain ended up getting the majority of the Western Hemisphere
Treaty of Tordesillas
Because of this treaty, Spain was the richest and most powerful country in the Western Hemisphere
Treaty of Tordesillas
The________ started exploring the new land but they found that there were already people there
Spanish
What year does contact refer to?
1492
The Spanish people led by _____ tried to infiltrate the western hemisphere and take over. The Aztecs were the natives and their empire was the largest empire.
Cortez
The Spanish people were bringing diseases into the Western Hemisphere, and _________ was the biggest killer
Smallpox
Cortez was able to conquer the Aztecs because of all of the _________ that the Spanish people brought
Diseases
Spain named their new empire
New Spain
Spanish motives for colonization (these were short term motives)
Gold, God, Glory
Most people who came to New Spain came to get rich or get glory but they went back home within ________
7 years
Only 30% of Spaniards stayed in New Spain which caused a problem which was that they needed labor. They used ________ as their labor source.
Natives
The natives ended up dying too fast and the Europeans had to turn towards
the slave movement
There was a split in religion after MLK posted his 95th thesis. He believed that the only way to be absolved of your sins was through attonment. Because of their disagreements, The ________ went after MLK
Catholic Church
There was a religious war, and in the second quarter of the 1500s started to see the beginning of the rise of ________
Protestants
England began to rise as a protestant power because they were separated from the Catholic Church. King Henry the 8th wanted to divorce his wife because she wasn’t giving him any sons. He asked the ________ for a divorce and it was denied so England split from the catholic church.
Pope
Church of England was also known as the _________
Anglican Church
The head of the Anglican church was called the _________
Monarch
Elizabeth I ruled England, and Phillip II ruled Spain. Phillip didn’t like that Elizabeth was a woman, unmarried, and he didn’t like her religion. Philip found out that Elizabeth was rewarding England for
Stealing Spanish ships
___________ are a pirate who acts like a pirate with the blessing of the government
Privateers
Phillip couldn’t understand why the __________ kept rebelling against the Spanish rule, it turned out that Elizabeth was sending people to the Netherlands so that they could rebel against Spain
Netherlands
Phillip wanted to punish Elizabeth so he sent a fleet of ships over which was known as
The Spanish Armada
Was the Spanish armada successful?
no
English power began to rise and Spanish power began declining. Because the Spanish power was declining, new __________ were able to settle down and make new _________
countries, colonies
The first English colonies were created by
Joint stock companies, which were business ventures
The joint stock companies were completely independent from the
English Crown
the ___________ sent 104 people into the new world and created the first permanent English Colony, Jamestown in 1607 in present day Virginia
London Company
Most of the English people ___________, the land they chose was low lying and swampy, and you couldn’t farm or build on the land. This caused people to get malraia and dysentery.
had no skills
in 1608 jamestown got a new leader ________ who had skills
John Smith
john smith put into place a policy where
if you don’t work, you don’t eat
the winter of 1609-1610 in Jamestown was called the
Starving Time
The London company was not making any money because they had land but not enough labor. They had to think of a way to get people to come over, so they thought of the
Headright System
This granted people 50 acres of land for every person they brought into the new world
Headright system
Headright was something that only the rich could afford, so people started using __________. they would pay for them to come over for 4-7 years, and at the end of service the servant would get 1-2 acres of land
indentured servants
The government in Virginia was called
House of Burgesses
The London Company went bankrupt because too many people were dying. Virginia became a _______ in 1624 and was under the direct rule of the Crown
Royal Colony
The first settlers of Massachusetts was the ________ and they came on the Mayflower. they were not a joint stock company, they were just people who were angry and wanted to get out of England. They “got lost” because they didn’t want to go to Virgina
Pilgrims
The ________ was seeking religious freedom, the Puritans came with this group as well
Massachusets Bay Company
English motives for colonization
Money
Land
Religion
The Puritans came to Massachusetts because James I and Charles I were pro catholic which was an issue because the main religion in England was Anglican. They tried to trend England back to ________. They ruled by divine right which meant that the only person they answered to was God.
Catholic
The upper house of Parliment was called the house of the ________ the lower house was called the house of the _______
Lords, Commons
Puritans were the majority party in the house of _______, they wanted to purify the Anglican church of Catholicism
commons
Charles I got mad and marched his troops into Parliment and disbanded it for 11 years. This caused the _______ to leave in large numbers to seek religious freedom
Puritans
________ means that the King cannot raise large sums of money without the consent of Parliment and because the Puritans controlled the House of Commons, they would block any laws regarding religion
Magna Carta
John Winthrop was the first governor of Massachusets and he wanted the Puritans to create a perfect society that everyone could look up to. This was a ________, which meant no separation of church and state
Theocracy
This was followed in all of the English colonies and it meant that the eldest son inherited all of the father’s wealth
primogeniture
the _______ did not follow primogeniture, which meant that all of the sons got wealth split equally. The fathers wanted control over their sons and they wanted their families to stay together. As a result, the sons were getting married later.
Puritans
In _________, most people were coming over as families, so schools had to be created.
Massachusetts
The colonists started to encroach upon ________ land which led to wars
Native American
the ________ war in 1637 was when the Natives were completely annihilated
Pequot
The biggest war was ___________, Metacon was the chief of the Wampanoags. The Europeans gave the Natives European names which is why they named Metacon Philip as a way of disrespecting him
King Phillip’s war
In King Phillip’s war, ________ created a huge alliance with the other tribes. They were successful at first because they wiped out people, but they didn’t have enough food and water in the winter so the English were able to fight back and they chopped his head off
Metachon
It took the Puritans 40 years to recover from the war population wise, but after King Phillip’s war, it was the end of the ____________
Native American resistance in New England.
One of three things had happened to the Native Americans in New England:
Dead, Moved, Assimilated
the ___________ was the exchanged of people, plants, and animals between Europe, Africa and America
Columbian Exchange
________ introduced things such as coffee, sugar cane, Animals (cow, sheep, pig, horse, chicken), wheat, rice, barley, diseases (the biggest one being smallpox)
Europeans