Unit 1 Significant Slideshow Items

Question 1

What crop was the staple crop of most groups?

Answer 1

maize

Question 2

What connected Europe, Africa and the Americas?

Answer 2

colonial societies and trade networks

Question 3

Who was America named after?

Answer 3

Amerigo Vespucci

Question 4

What led to many improvements in transportation, communication and navigation?

Answer 4

“Scientific Revolution”

Question 5

How Indians got here from Asia

Answer 5

Bering Land Bridge

Question 6

________ _________ represented 75% of Europe’s population

Answer 6

landless peasants

Question 7

Transatlantic slave trade

Answer 7

part of Triangular Trade, Africa would give slaves to Am.

Question 8

“god and gold” fueled

Answer 8

Spanish exploration and colonization

Question 9

_________ was the first permanent settlement in NA

Answer 9

St. Augustine

Question 10

encomienda system

Answer 10

colonists profited from land and indigenous labor

Question 11

Maryland’s Development

Answer 11

didn’t occur as Baltimore had hoped, governed as an “absentee proprietor,” very few Catholics actually migrated

Question 12

Europe believed in _______ which was_______

Answer 12

mercantilism, nation’s power is measured by wealth

Question 13

Bacon’s rebellion revealed

Answer 13

social divisions