APUSH 2.3 Flashcards
The increasing political, economic, and cultural exchanges within the Atlantic World had some profound impact on the development of what?
Colonial societies in North America
Atlantic World commercial, religious, philosophical, and political interactions among Europeans, Africans, and American native people stimulated what?
Economic growth
expanded social networks
reshaped labor systems
What was created by the 17th century Atlantic Trade?
labor market
exchange of goods
What began with Spanish and Portuguese traders in West Africa?
Growth of slavery in the Americas
What was the passage where shipments of Africans in close quartered ships were shipped and would last several weeks or months?
Middle Passage
What trade route shipped rum, sugar, molasses, and slaves?
Triangular trade route
How did merchants trade defy the Navigation Acts?
traded with Spanish, Dutch, and French
What promoted Anglicization in the British colonies?
using more English norms and customs
What was similar to English governments?
Representative assemblies
What increased contact with colonies and England?
Trade
What kind of ideas traveled from England and Europe to Americas?
Enlightenment
How did America later use similar contributions like the Enlightenment?
Franklin and Jefferson
What colonies had religious freedom?
Maryland Act of Toleration: reliogious tolerance to all Christians
Quakers
How did Evangelism spread?
The 1st great awakening saw George Whitefield travel from England travel to the colonies to spread religion
What emerged among British colonies?
Strict racial categories and stereotyping
Blacks and whites lived in _ living quarters and were _ throughout the day.
Separated
Segregated
Similar to natives, Africans were also seen as what?
Savages, and less than human to justify treatment
How was any resistance to slavery treated?
Harshly
What were the Spanish and French more accepting of?
racial gradation
What emerged in the Spanish empire?
Mestizos and mullatos
Britain’s desire to maintain a viable North American empire in the face of growing internal challenges and external competition inspired efforts to do what?
Strengthen imperial control
Stimulating increasing resistance from colonists who had grown accustom to large measure of automony
Overtime, regional differences in colonies gave way to similarities in what?
Laws
Trail
Institution
Governance within the context of the British imperial system
What was the similarity in laws?
crimes were redefined (John Peter Zenger)
What was the similarity in trial?
People could criticize government officials if it was true