Chapter 2 Review — 1521-1700

Question 1

What was chattel slavery?

Answer 1

Status if child would be determined based on mother not father

Question 2

What ran contradictory to English law

Answer 2

Children born to slave owners and slave mothers were automatically slaves

Question 3

What was the enconmienda system

Answer 3

Spanish conquistadorrs were given land from the crown

Question 4

What was the encomienda system based on

Answer 4

Harsh and profitable Indian slave labor

Question 5

What was the new Spanish social classes

Answer 5

Mestizos, mulattos and Zambos

Question 6

What were mestizos

Answer 6

Natuve American and European

Question 7

Mulattos

Answer 7

Mixed European and african

Question 8

Zambos

Answer 8

Mixed African and native american

Question 9

What was a big goal of Spanish exploration

Answer 9

To convert indians to catholicism

Question 10

What was the Colombian exchange

Answer 10

Exchange of goods people disease and ideas between Africa Europe and the americas

Question 11

Which new crops were introduced to europe

Answer 11

Potatows and maize

Question 12

What had a large impact on indian life

Answer 12

Horses

Question 13

What was the protestant challenge to spain

Answer 13

England builds up navy to defeat spanish

Question 14

What was merxantilism

Answer 14

Purpose to benefit the mother country (England) by exporting more goods than importing

Question 15

Why did plantations grow in the americas

Answer 15

Increased demand for sugar and tobacco

Question 16

Brazil’s sugar plantations

Answer 16

Arduous labor milling was done on site very profitable

Question 17

Indian populations declined

Answer 17

African slave labor was introduced

Question 18

England’s tobacco colonies

Answer 18

Jamestown originally all men who hoped to gain gold eventually a major cash crop which exhausted the indian land

Question 19

What is a joint stock company

Answer 19

Investors shared in profits and losses if colony

Question 20

What is the house if burgesses

Answer 20

First representative government in US

Question 21

What was the indian war

Answer 21

1/3 of Jamestown population was killed by indian attacks which caused Jamestown to become a royal colony causing colonists to pay taxes to support the church of england

Question 22

What is a proprietor colony

Answer 22

Royal grant of land granted by the king (lord Baltimore Catholics in Maryland)

Question 23

What were the Maryland acts of toleration

Answer 23

Grants of religious freedom to Christians only particularly catholics

Question 24

What crop did Maryland and Virginia (Chesapeake) colony’s rely on

Answer 24

Tobacco

Question 25

What did the Carribean colonies focus on

Answer 25

Sugar production

Question 26

What was the head right system and what did it cause

Answer 26

Plantation life gave 50 acres of land who paid for an immigrants passage benefited the rich

Question 27

What was indentured servitude

Answer 27

In return for passage they would work for 4-5 years and then could be free but 1/2 of servants died before freedom

Question 28

What did the Chesapeake do in terms of labor

Answer 28

Indentured servitude

Question 29

Where were African laborers heavily used

Answer 29

The Caribbean for sugar

Question 30

Due to bacon rebellion where did African slaves start working

Answer 30

In Chesapeake because it was cheaper than indentured servants

Question 31

What happened to laws surrounding blacks

Answer 31

Strict laws promoted racism and regulated behavior

Question 32

Where did new France expand

Answer 32

Into the north amerixja interior Canada and Quebec for fur trade

Question 33

What did new France establish

Answer 33

Jesuit priests who sought to convert indians

Question 34

What did new Netherlands establish

Answer 34

New Amsterdam which was a small colony but engaged in significant commerce

Question 35

What did the Dutch trade

Answer 35

Furs

Question 36

Who were the iroqouis

Answer 36

Traded weapons and goods in new yorj with Dutch and french

Question 37

What was new england

Answer 37

Composed of pilgrim sep artists who who wanted to break away from the church of england

Question 38

Which was a better climate Plymouth or chesapeake

Answer 38

Plymouth

Question 39

What government did the English establish

Answer 39

Representative self government

Question 40

What did puritans want

Answer 40

Wanted to purify the English church not separate from it

Question 41

Who was a big puritan

Answer 41

John Winthrop who was in Massachusetts bay

Question 42

What did puritans believe in

Answer 42

Pre destination and only church members could vote

Question 43

What did roger Williams do in those island

Answer 43

Advocates separation of church and state as well as religious tolerstion and friendly relations with indians

Question 44

Where was there no established church

Answer 44

Rhode island

Question 45

Who was anne hutchinson

Answer 45

Major threat to puritans challenged vender roles in church claimed to have direct revelations with god eventually banished from Massachusetts bay

Question 46

What were the salem which trials

Answer 46

Hysteria execution accused tended to be wealthier widowed women who were middle ages accusers were poorer

Question 47

After the witch trials what movement came to light

Answer 47

The enlightenment

Question 48

What were the indian wars

Answer 48

Puritan pequot war

Question 49

Who allied with the pequots

Answer 49

The Dutch and had conflicts with English settlers

Question 50

What did John Winthrop see small pox as

Answer 50

Decimation of indians doing gods work

Question 51

What was metacoms war/king Phillips war

Answer 51

Metaxom was a leader and was eventually killed and after natives were rarely a threat in new england

Question 52

What was bacon rebellion

Answer 52

Governor Berkeley dud not allow settlement past a line while in the west farmers were underrepresented in house of burgesses

Question 53

In bacon rebellion where was the conflicts

Answer 53

Natives and westerners like bacon, bacon almost took control but then he died because of a disease

Question 54

What was the significance if bacon rebellion

Answer 54

Movement towards slave labor, showed tensions between rich and poor east and west