Slavery/Colonial Americas Flashcards
Unit 1
Colombian Exchange
The exchange of diseases, ideas, food. crops, and populations between the New World and the Old World following the voyage to the Americas by Christopher Columbus in 1492.
Triangular Trade
Triangular trade or triangle trade is trade between three ports or regions. Triangular trade usually evolves when a region has export commodities that are not required in the region from which its major imports come. It has been used to offset trade imbalances between different regions.
Caribbean Slavery
Some 40 per cent of enslaved Africans were shipped to the Caribbean Islands, which, in the seventeenth century, surpassed Portuguese Brazil as the principal market for enslaved labor.
European Countries
To various degrees of success, four European nations participated in the colonization of North America: Spain, France, Great Britain and Holland.
Colonial Development
European People making homes and villages in the NEW WORLD also know as america
Encomienda System
a Spanish labor system that rewarded conquerors with the labor of conquered non-Christian peoples.
Mayflower compact/House of Burgesses
The House of Burgesses, first convened in Virginia in 1619, was America’s first representative assembly, which allowed colonists to make laws and govern themselves
Mercantilism
Mercantilism is a nationalist economic policy that is designed to maximize the exports and minimize the imports for an economy. In other words, it seeks to maximize the accumulation of resources within the country and use those resources for one-sided trade.
Salutary Neglect
salutary neglect was the 18th-century policy of the British Crown of avoiding the strict enforcement of parliamentary laws, especially trade laws, as long as British colonies remained loyal to the government and contributed to the economic growth of their parent country, England and then, after the Acts of Union 1707, Great Britain
Reasons for Slave Trade
The importance of the West Indian colonies.
The shortage of labour.
The failure to find alternative sources of labour.
The legal position.
Racial attitudes.
Religious factors.
Military factors.
