American History to 1877 (Exam 1)

Question 1

Commercial Revolution

Answer 1

Large increase in overseas trade that produced in Northern Europe surplus capital, which was invested in voyages of “merchant adventurers”

Question 2

merchant adventurers

Answer 2

Took grave risks to search for high profit commodities overseas

Question 3

mercantilism

Answer 3

early form of capitalism, the system was based on state-assisted manufacturing and trade

Question 4

primogeniture

Answer 4

principle of inheritance which says that the firstborn child (and usually applied only to males) receive all or the most valuable property of his parents at their death

Question 5

plantation agriculture

Answer 5

Estate agriculture using slave labor and pioneered by Italian merchants and crusading knights in the 12th century

Question 6

Indian removal

Answer 6

violent conflict which push indigenous peoples further west as each colony expands

Question 7

indentured servant

Answer 7

workers bound to labor for a certain number of years, not always bound by choice, whether criminal or a victim of force.

Question 8

serf

Answer 8

Peasant laborer bound to a manor. Distinguished from slave by set of rights and attachment to group.