Chapter 1 Flashcards
(10 cards)
The people of four continents were suddenly and unexpectedly thrown into contact with one another.
North America, South America, Europe, and Africa
Contact between Europe and the Americas began as a?
by-product of the quest for a sea route for trade with Asia. But it quickly became a contest for power between rival empires, who moved to conquer, colonize, and exploit the resources of the New World
Within the present border of the United States there existed Indian societies based on?
agriculture, hunting, or fishing, with their own languages, religious practices, and forms of government. All experienced wrenching changes after Europeans arrived, including incorporation into the world market and epidemics of disease that devastated many native groups.
The first permanent colony to be established, was created by a private company that sought to earn profits through exploration for gold and the development of transatlantic trade.
Virginia
established Maryland and Pennsylvania
Individual proprietors— well-connected Englishmen given large grants of land by the king
New York, which had been founded by the?
Dutch, came into British hands as the result of a war.
Religious groups seek- ing escape from persecution in England and hoping to establish communities rooted in their understanding of the principles of the Bible founded colonies in?
New England
Christopher Columbus made landfall in the?
West Indian islands in 1492
Within a decade of Columbus’s voyage, a fourth continent—Africa—found itself drawn into the new Atlantic system of trade and population movement. In Africa, Europeans found a supply of?
unfree labor that enabled them to exploit the fertile lands of the Western Hemisphere. Indeed, of approximately 10 million men, women, and children who crossed from the Old World to the New between 1492 and 1820, the vast majority, about 7.7 million, were African slaves.
Year the United States declared itself an independent nation
1776
