Arrival and Life in the New World

Question 1

Spain in the New World:

Answer 1

-wanted to get rich through exploration
-wanted to convert Natives to Catholics

Question 2

France in the New World:

Answer 2

-wanted to make money off of fur trade
-rely on alliances with Natives

Question 3

Dutch in the New World:

Answer 3

-trade empire
-struggled with military and to be profitable

Question 4

English in the New World:

Answer 4

• religious and economic
  -bring men and women to the New World

Question 5

Who were the Métis?

Answer 5

the kids of French man and Native women

Question 6

Importance of tobacco in the New World?

Answer 6

-successful for Virginia
-very labor intensive
-slaves

Question 7

Colonies in the Chesapeake and Sothern Region:

Answer 7

-Virginia
-Carolinas
-Georgia
-Maryland

Question 8

What was the Indentured Servitude?

Answer 8

working in exchange for the price of passage to America, later led to slavery

Question 9

Colonies in the New England region:

Answer 9

-Massachusetts
-Connecticut
-Rhode Island
-New Hampshire

Question 10

Things to know about the New England region:

Answer 10

-people came for religious purposes
-fishing and lumber drive the economy

Question 11

Colonies in the Mid-Atlantic Region:

Answer 11

-New York
-New Jersey
-Pennsylvania
-Delaware

Question 12

Things to know about the Mid-Atlantic Region:

Answer 12

-variety of people, British territory
-Major cities and trade hubs because region is in the middle of everything.

Question 13

Joint Stock Company

Answer 13

allows larger financial investments to
be made (big for colonies)

Question 14

Mercantilism

Answer 14

(Needed government regulation) an economic theory that the more you can export the better

Question 15

Salutary Neglect

Answer 15

Colonies have a free hand in their affairs as long as they are profitable for England

Question 16

Virginia House of Burgesses

Answer 16

(1619) the first elected legislative assembly in the colonies.

Question 17

Navigation Acts

Answer 17

merchants in every colony were to ship good directly to England in English ships

Question 18

Molasses Act

Answer 18

tightens control over colonial exports and manufacturing

Question 19

Mayflower Compact

Answer 19

(1620) signed while on the Mayflower, pledging to establish a civil government with the
authority to enact laws.

Question 20

Conflicts before the French Indian War were between who?

Answer 20

Britain (Red) vs. French and Native alliances (Blue) over land

Question 21

Pequot War

Answer 21

Who? British with Native Alliances vs. Pequot people
Where? New England
When? 1634-1639
Why? to wipe out the Pequot people

Question 22

King Philips War

Answer 22

Who? Natives vs. colonists
What? the deadliest war at the time. 5-10% of colonists, 40% of Wampanoag tribe die
Where? New England
When? 1675-1678
Why? leader King Philip was killed

Question 23

Bacon’s Rebellion

Answer 23

Who? Nathaniel Bacon
Where? Jamestown, Virginia
When? 1676
Why? farmers in Virginia feel they are overtaxed.

Question 24

Results of Bacon’s Rebellion:

Answer 24

Bacon storms Jamestown, takes over government, but then dies. Slavery is now an idea.

Question 25

Triangle Trade

Answer 25

the flow of goods, slaves from Europe, Africa, and The Americas

Question 26

Flow of the Triangle trade

Answer 26

from Europe to Africa: manufactured goods
from Africa to New World: slaves
from New World to Europe: raw material

Question 27

Middle Passage

Answer 27

the Slave journey from Africa to the New World

Question 28

Stono Rebellion and Resistance

Answer 28

Who? Slaves
What? Slaves rebelled, hoping to go to Florida. Slaves’ dead bodies were displayed as a lesson on what not to do.
Where? Carolinas
When? 17939
Why? they wanted freedom

Question 29

British in the French Indian War

Answer 29

-red
-alliances with the colonists
-2 million population
-not bed military because their best military was back in England

Question 30

French in the French Indian War

Answer 30

-blue
-60,000 French settlers and various Native alliances
-French did not have control over their Native allies

Question 31

What was the purpose of the French Indian War?

Answer 31

The final contest to see which European Empire would control the New World (every war and battle led up to this)

Question 32

Battle of the Monogahela

Answer 32

an embarrassing British defeat, led by British General Edward Braddock who was unskilled